GREAT BEND TRIBUNE More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Turn to historic fiction in any weather Greetings from the Great Bend Public Library! I hope everyone is staying warm out there! The good news is it looks like we have warmer days ahead to look forward to. This record-breaking cold weather reminded me of a book that came out recently about a deadly blizzard that happened in the great plains back in 1888. The book focuses on some of the youngest casualties of the blizzard that left some five hundred dead, 100 of those casualties being school children.