Bess Streeter Aldrich: 6 books

Literary Thoughts edition presents Song of Years by Bess Streeter Aldrich ------ "Song of Years" is a novel by American author Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881–1954), originally published in 1939 and capturing the period in Iowa of Indian scares and county-seat wars, as well as the political...

Bess Streeter Aldrich (February 17, 1881 – August 3, 1954) was an American author. Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She went on to become one of the highest-paid women writers. Her stories often concerned Midwestern pioneer history and were very popular with teenage girls and young women....

When the editor of Christian Herald asked me to write the story behind the story of "A Lantern in Her Hand," it seemed an easy assignment. Here at my desk several weeks later the task does not look so simple. For the roots of a writer's work in creating characters often go deep into the...

It was the first Tuesday in August. The Nebraska heat rolled in upon one like the engulfing waves of a dry sea,--a thick material substance against which one seemed to push when moving about. Two women, standing by the back porch of a house in the north end of Cedartown, commented wearily. "Hot." "Awful." The...

At the age of seventeen, Abbie must decide whether to marry Ed, and live a life of comfort, or Will, who offers a sod shanty on the Nebraska frontier.

The state of Iowa was still young and wild when Wayne Lockwood came to it from New England in 1851. He claimed a quarter-section about a hundred miles west of Dubuque and quickly came to appreciate widely scattered neighbors like Jeremiah Martin, whose seven daughters would have chased the gloom from...