This is an older book, wrote in 1930s by Nebraska author Bess Streeter Aldrich. A good story about a young couple that have fallen in love in the time right after the Civil War but are soon separated. Her family is Lutheran and is moving from IL to NE to establish farms where their group wouldn't be so spread out. Her mother has passed and it is just her father & a younger brother--her father has already promised her to an older man in their Lutheran group. The young man that has fallen for her tries to jump ahead and reach her group in NE before they setout for their farms and she is married. He just misses her by a day. The book follows them both on the life they lead and then the lives of their children and grandchildren. A good read about the two lives in the new & growing state of NE. Enjoyable but wouldn't say great. Glad to have finally read one of the author's books since she is a renown NE author.
This is a keeper book for me like most NE authors.
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