The Long Winter
An old man walks into the store in October to say that seven months of hard weather are coming, and the first blizzard arrives before the hay is in. Trains stop for good in January, the coal and the kerosene run out, and the town lives on seed wheat ground in a coffee mill and hay twisted into sticks for the stove. Between storms two young men take a sled out onto the open prairie after a homesteader rumoured to be holding grain.
Open The Long Winter in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.
Lineage
- continues ↑ By the Shores of Silver Lake
- ↓ Little Town on the Prairie
Attributes
Genre
Plot structure
Emotional arc (story shape)
Quest object (Greimas)
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
- 51% · 10 shared
- 47% · 11 shared
- 45% · 12 shared
- 45% · 12 shared
- 45% · 10 shared
- 42% · 10 shared