01891cam a2200313 4500 600782647 TxAuBib 20220803120000.0 840824s1985||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 84019671 9780803259072 0803259077 (OCoLC)11157547 TxAuBib Aldrich, Bess Streeter, 1881-1954., author. Spring came on forever / Bess Streeter Aldrich. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1985] 332 pages ; 21 cm. Reprint. Originally published: New York : D. Appleton-Century, 1935. Acclaimed for her 1928 novel "A Lantern in Her Hand," Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, "Spring Came on Forever," a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head. Quickly 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 heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man. 20220803. Frontier and pioneer life Nebraska Fiction. Families Fiction. Illinois Fiction. Nebraska Fiction. Domestic fiction.