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          Bess Genevra Streeter Aldrich was an American author whose prolific output of novels and short stories evoked the American Plains and the people who settled.!

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        2. Set in the years after the Civil War, the story begins in Omaha, where Linnie Colsworth has arrived from the East to spend a year with her uncle.
        3. Bess Genevra Streeter Aldrich was an American author whose prolific output of novels and short stories evoked the American Plains and the people who settled.
        4. Three of Nebraska's most famous authors, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz, not only wrote about pioneers, they were pioneers.
        5. Bess (Streeter) Aldrich is Notable.

          6. Bess Streeter Aldrich

          American author

          Bess Streeter Aldrich

          Bess Streeter Aldrich bust by Herman Albert Becker

          BornBess Genevra Streeter
          (1881-02-17)February 17, 1881
          Cedar Falls, Iowa
          DiedAugust 3, 1954(1954-08-03) (aged 73)
          Lincoln, Nebraska
          Pen nameMargaret Dean Stephens
          OccupationWriter (novelist)
          NationalityAmerican
          Period20th century
          GenreFiction
          Notable works"The Woman Who Was Forgotten", Miss Bishop
          SpouseCharles Aldrich

          Bess Streeter Aldrich (pen name, Margaret Dean Stephens; February 17, 1881 – August 3, 1954) was an American author.

          Life and career

          Bess Genevra Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She was the last of the eight children of James Wareham and Mary Wilson Anderson Streeter.[2] Attending high school in Cedar Falls, she was the winner of two magazine fiction-writing contests prior to graduating at age 17.[3] After graduating from Iowa State Normal School wi