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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 16.1  Winter 1972 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Cather Horne Named … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … Contemporaries p. 27 Call for papers--International Seminar 2009 p. 28 The archive-Edith Lewis camera p. 32 President's …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… 19th century. Right Rolla reveals more of his interest in card-playing. “Never looking at the card in the bottom of … no. 1.” Regarding her desire if shipwrecked on a desolate island, Lillian doesn’t focus on survival or rescue, but … L. Hurlbutt Left The Red Cloud Chief for August 16, 1888 noted that “Miss Hurlbut of Alma” was to be the assistant …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World

… also gaps: men and women who just couldn't be located in local newspapers, census data, or other records. Some might …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… TX-50-1000-003 Framed transcript of TX-50-1000-002     Notebook OBJ-50-1000-004 Notebook Douglass Cather   Journal … TX-50-1000-035 Charles Cather Business Christmas Card     Document TX-50-1000-036 Barnum documents   1856 … Chief Oil     Map TX-50-1000-067 Plot map of George Smith land   1793 Docume9t TX-50-1000-068 Rental agreement   1840 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the archives to local history and, in our case, … Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good reason! They … our founder and one of a handful of people with direct connections to Cather's Red Cloud family and friends. Willa …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Press Room

… public to visit our virtual Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and … links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact … and services include regular guided  historic site tours , conservation of the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Remembering Our Fallen

… for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud … met him just on the edge of town, and we stopped to chat about the war news. I believe he always wanted to be a soldier. I can see …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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