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I'm trying to identify a book series I read as a youngster.
I believe, but am not positive, that it had four volumes, and that each had a short, possibly one-word title. They were the story of a family of homesteaders on the early American frontier, following a couple from first settling to old age, when the place they'd settled had grown into a prosperous town. PBS aired a multi-episode adaptation in the late 1970s or thereabouts, which I saw before finding the books (which I liked, despite much going over my head, because I was on a colonial/early republic frontier kick). The only plot-specific detail I remember is that the husband, early on, had an affair with one of their first neighbors, and in a later volume one of the sons was forced, with much angst, to stop courting a young woman because she was actually his half-sister by that affair.
Anyone have any idea about the titles/author?
---L.
I'm trying to identify a book series I read as a youngster.
I believe, but am not positive, that it had four volumes, and that each had a short, possibly one-word title. They were the story of a family of homesteaders on the early American frontier, following a couple from first settling to old age, when the place they'd settled had grown into a prosperous town. PBS aired a multi-episode adaptation in the late 1970s or thereabouts, which I saw before finding the books (which I liked, despite much going over my head, because I was on a colonial/early republic frontier kick). The only plot-specific detail I remember is that the husband, early on, had an affair with one of their first neighbors, and in a later volume one of the sons was forced, with much angst, to stop courting a young woman because she was actually his half-sister by that affair.
Anyone have any idea about the titles/author?
---L.