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Children of the Storm: The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy
Children of the Storm The True Story of the Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy Author:Ariana Harner, Clark Secrest On the morning of March 26, 1931, Carl Miller embarked on his usual school bus run through the vastness of Colorado's southeastern plains. Miller's routine was to pick up some 20 young people and deliver them to a pair of forlorn one-room schoolhouses. Then in the late afternoon, Miller would climb back into his wooden school bus and return his ... more »young charges to their farm homes. This would not be a usual day for Miller and his young passengers, however. By late afternoon their little school bus was marooned in the worst blizzard to strike Colorado in nearly 50 years. Before rescuers arrived 33 hours later, driver Miller and 5 of the young people-including his daughter-were dead or soon would die. News of the so-called "Pleasant Hill School Bus Tragedy" soon flashed around the world. Culled from newspaper accounts, archives, and interviews with 6 survivors, now in their eighties, a moving story emerges. This is a true tale of the will to survive, of media exploitation, false heroism, lifelong heartbreak, and lessons learned by people too young to fully understand.« less