Hazel Miner

Died protecting siblings from blizzard

Hazel Dulcie Miner (April 11, 1904 – March 16, 1920), a student at a rural Great Plains one-room school, died while protecting her 10-year-old brother, Emmet, and 8-year-old sister, Myrdith, from the spring blizzard of 1920 in Center, Oliver County, North Dakota.

After her death, she became a national American heroine.Her actions were celebrated in a folk ballad and were published in many newspaper and magazine articles in the subsequent decades.