"Why, when I was writing about it, it "came right out of the ink bottle."
- Personal interview
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Willa Cather

Concluding her fine study of Willa Cather's fiction After the World Broke in Two, the late Merrill Maguire Skaggs asserted that the author "whose portrait emerges from this arrangement of her facts is complex and brilliant," and that "she knows at all points what she is doing. Above all el...

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Willa Cather Timeline

1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871 — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the town of Red Cloud are officially organized. 1872 — Cha...

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Online Texts

In addition to the online texts we’ve made available below, we encourage you to visit The Willa Cather Archive for a more complete, comprehensive collection of Cather’s online work. This site allows readers access to first editions, scholarly editions, pre-1912 short fiction, i...

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