MAXINE BRIDGMAN ISACKSON. Come Green Grass. Maxineisackson.com. 308 pages; soft cover $19.95; maxineisackson.com.
Come Green Grass is book one of a trilogy following a ranch family from 1894 through and beyond WWI. Leah Clayborn, orphaned and penniless at seventeen, arrives in Horse Flatts, Nebraska, to make her home on a cattle ranch with an uncle she has never met. The uncle, a crusty old bachelor, has his doubts of his eastern city niece “fitting in.” Leah, however, dives right in and proves she has the “makings.”