The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife's fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in...
Nebraska
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Author:Genoways, TedSummary: -
Author:Cather, WillaSummary:Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not...
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Author:Cather, WillaSummary:A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of...
- Author:Whitson, Stephanie GraceSummary:
It is World War II, and Nazi soldiers have been brought fo Fort Robinson as prisoners of war. The town, already heartworn from the loss of so many men, is divided in their feelings about the prisoners. CJ, now all grown up and running a...
- Author:Streeter Aldrich, BessSummary:
Abbie Deal was born in Iowa during the 1800's. This novel tells how she moved to Nebraska as a bride and struggled with hardship and poverty to help her husband raise a family and provide for them.
