Song of years

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Original title: Song of Years

first published 1939 Thorndike Press, 1992 746 pages

An accurate and engrossing history about the pioneers who settled Iowa, focusing around the life and times of one family. The family is based upon the author's own grandfather and aunts and their stories. This book movingly draws you in with the history of pioneers clearing virgin land and creating homesteads and cities out of isolated but beautiful and productive land. The settlers face Indians, burgeoning politics,...

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Editions we hold

Song of Years edition · 2018 · Rehak, David · 9781773231662
Song of years edition · 1992 · Thorndike Press · 746 pages
Song of years edition · 1991 · University of Nebraska Press · 405 pages
Song of Years paperback · 1985 · Signet · 1 pages · 9780451139252
Song of Years paperback · 1985 · Signet · 1 pages · 9780451161253
Song of Years hardcover · 1975 · Amereon Limited · 496 pages · 9780884112518

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