Hard Winter of 1880–81

Hard Winter of 1880–81
A snow blockade in southern Minnesota during the Hard Winter. On March 29, 1881, snowdrifts in Minnesota were higher than locomotives.
Meteorological history
FormedOctober 15, 1880
DissipatedApril 1881

The winter of 1880-81 in the United States, referred to as the Hard Winter, the Long Winter or the Snow Winter, was a period of extreme cold and large snowfalls across the central Great Plains region. The winter is depicted in the 1940 novel The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the 1920s novel Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rølvaag, and other fictional works.

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