A Lost Lady is a short novel set in a small Nebraska railway town in the late nineteenth century. It is seen through the eyes of Niel Herbert, a boy who admires Marian Forrester, the charming, vivacious wife of an older retired railroad builder. As the frontier era fades and the town changes, Niel's understanding of her and of the world around him grows more complicated. The book is a delicate study of admiration, disillusion and the passing of an age.
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He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent.