classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had...... more

The main character of this novel, Ella Bishop, is a healthy, sensitive, energetic, and happy person ... more

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881 - 1954) was an American author. Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She went on to...... more

During the first half of the twentieth century, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most highly paid and widely...... more

In the first half of the twentieth century Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of America’s best loved, most widely read...... more

classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had...... more

Abbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Fl... more

Bess Streeter Aldrich is known for her portrayals of wise and witty women whose identities are strengthened, not...... more

the author’s childhood in Iowa. Bess Streeter Aldrich is well remembered for A Lantern in Her Hand, from which Christmas...... more

Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read...... more

As part of its program of books for Nebraska’s centennial year, the UNP reprints this best-selling n... more

The true meaning of Christmas emerges in Bess Streeter Aldrich’s two enchanting stories about reunited families, good...... more

Amid the rough-and-tumble world of frontier Iowa, eighteen-year-old Abbie Mackenzie treasured a secr... more

The classic story of Abbie and Will Deal--pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on Amer... more