Lantern in Her Hand

Name: Lantern in Her Hand
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ISBN: 9780140384284

ISBN-10: 0140384286

ISBN-13: 9780140384284

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Authors: Bess Streeter Aldrich, Bess S. Aldrich

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First published in 1928, "A Lantern in Her Hand" has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In 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. In "A Lantern in Her Hand," Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be-state of Nebraska. There, in 1865, she marries and settles into her own sod house. The novel describes Abbie's years of child-raising, of making a frontier home able to withstand every adversity. A Disciplined writer knowledgeable about true stories of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys the strength of everyday…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 4.41" wide x 7.09" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.286

Carol Miles Petersen is the author of a forthcoming biography of Aldrich, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. She formerly taught at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.