nebraska

An annotated edition of American author Willa Cather's 1913 novel about an independent young woman whose passion for the Nebraska prairie leads to her becoming a wealthy landowner.

A biography of Grace McCance Snyder, who grew up on the nineteenth-century Nebraska prairie, detailing the everyday joys and struggles of American pioneers.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.

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In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children.

Twelve-year-old Abbie struggles to accept her father's desire to make a new home for his family on the Nebraska prairies of the late 1850s.

Hank, having come west on an orphan train to live with a disagreeable couple on a farm in Nebraska, tries to endure his miserable existence and thinks about running away, as his older brother did.

Claude Wheeler, a sensitive Nebraska youth, lives in the midst of plenty on his family's prosperous farm hungering for a purpose. When America enters the Great War he goes to France to find meaning.

When Betsy learns that a new family is coming to the Nebraska prairie, she hopes they have a girl who will be her friend.