Spring Came On Forever is a 1935 novel by Bess Streeter Aldrich.
One of Aldrich's "pioneer novels", it recounts the life of two American characters who head out West into the Nebraska Territory.
The two, a German-speaking Lutheran girl and a blacksmith's apprentice, fall in love but their plans at marriage are thwarted by circumstances.
The novel, which speaks to the German immigration experience in the United States,[1] was a great commercial success considering the time (the Great Depression); between October 1935 and January 1936 it sold over 45,000 copies.
In March 1936, Aldrich was offered $20,000 for the movie rights, for a musical version by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern.