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A Lantern in Her Hand
Bess Streeter AldrichIn this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest.
Nebraska History
More editionsCarol Miles Petersen, Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real (Lincoln/ London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, notes, Aldrich bibliography, index, xxii, 257 pp., $35 cloth). Bess Streeter ...
Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories
Bess Streeter AldrichThe true meaning of Christmas emerges in Bess Streeter Aldrich's collection of stories about reunited families, good fellowship, and restored faith.
Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams are All Real
Carol Miles PetersenHer stories were written to remind her readers of the joy of life. Carol Miles Petersenformerly taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is editor of the Collected Short Works of Bess Streeter Aldrich (Nebraska 1995).
Spring Came on Forever
Bess Streeter AldrichQuickly paced and precisely drawn, this novel is Aldrich's greatest tribute to the complexity, humor, endurance, and intelligence of the people who settled the prairie. Whatever its sentiments, it has as many cutting edges as a buzz saw.
The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954
Bess Streeter AldrichWith this collection Aldrich’s admirers have ready access to many hard-to-find works. Some of the stories appear here for the first time since their original publication.
American national biography
John Arthur GarratyFor a biography, see Carol Miles Petersen, Bess Streeter Aldrich: Thc Dreams Arc All Real (1996). A picture of Aldrich accompanies an obituary in the New York Times, 4 Aug. 1954. Carol Miles Petersen ALDRICH, Chester Holmes (4 June ...
Mother Mason
Bess Streeter AldrichA strong, loving, patient Midwestern housewife and mother finds herself dangerously near to involvement in a scandal following an innocent college reunion
The Rim of the Prairie
Bess Streeter Aldrich"A western story set in a small town in Nebraska on 'the rim of the prairie.
The Collected Short Works, 1907-1919
Bess Streeter Aldrichthe eyes of the devoted relatives, but an exceedingly foolish one as welL Who, they asked themselves, would want to teach forty children several hours a day in a big prison-like building, when one might be Mrs. Graham Stanley of Capitol ...
Great Plains Quarterly
More editionsBy Carol Miles Petersen. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index, xix + 237 pp. $35.00. Bess Streeter Aldrich, Nebraska author (1881-1954), believed that if people want to do something badly ...
Western American Literature
More editions$45 cloth also by Bess Streeter Aldrich The Collected Short Works, 1907-1919 Edited by Carol Miles Petersen $45 cloth Death Comes for the Archbishop WILLA CATHER Historical Essay and Explanatory Notes by John J. Murphy Q Textual ...
A White Bird Flying
Bess Streeter AldrichAbbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things.
Heritage of the Great Plains
More editionsCarol Miles Petersen, "Bess Streeter Aldrich," in Resource Guide to Six Nebraska Authors, eds. David McCleery and Kira Gale (Lincoln, Neb.: A Slow Tempo Press, 1991), 13. 4. Sculley Bradley, Richard Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long, ...
The Hubbs and related families of Louisiana
Wilmuth Stanley HubbsHarry Aldrich Jr. M.D. b. Louis Aldrich 2. Lawson Burfoot Aldrich-b. 07 Nov 1870 d.06 Sept 1944 m . El la Lanier Children : a. Robert Burfoot Aldr ich-unmarried b. Ella Virginia Aldrich-b. d . □. Calvin Schwing (no issue) c.Lawson L. Aldr ich-b .
Bess Of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth
Mary S. LovellBess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era.
The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel
Thomas Bailey AldrichFans of intelligent, finely wrought fiction will appreciate this volume that brings together some of Aldrich's most popular tales.
Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich
Tony WilliamsBody and Soul concentrates on the creative and cultural dilemmas--both personal and political--that affect the individuals in Aldrich's films.
An Old Town by the Sea
Thomas Bailey AldrichThomas Bailey Aldrich 1st World Library. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES THE running of the first train over the Eastern Road from Boston to Portsmouth - it took place somewhat more than forty years ago - was attended by a serious accident.
Templeton
Harry Aldrich Jr.Harry Aldrich Jr., Brian P. Tanguay, Narragansett Historical Society. Employees of the Temple Stuart ... Constantino, Wilfred Graves, Tony Naisatka, Pid Mason, Louis Cloutier, Bud Whitney, Carl Harwood, and ? Stone. The third row includes ...
The Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Bailey AldrichThomas Bailey Aldrich. name's Tom Bailey; what's your name?" If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't, I would turn on my heel, for I was particular on this point. Such names as Higgins, ...
The Extraordinary Dance Book T B. 1826: An Anonymous ...
Elizabeth AldrichAn Anonymous Manuscript in Facsimile Elizabeth Aldrich, Sandra Noll Hammond , Armand Russell. The Extraordinary Dance Book TB. 1826 An Anonymous Manuscript in Facsimile Commentaries and analyses by Elizabeth Aldrich, Sandra ...
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