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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Cather Books & Gifts Something for Everyone Our online store offers a vast selection of products for both seasoned …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 01/29/2026

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … along the streets of Red Cloud, looking for souvenirs and visiting the Cather Museum and the Cather House. Red Cloud …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Gifts p. 1  Death Notice of Edith Lewis p. 2  1973--Cather Centennial Year, Cather Stamp p. 2  Increasing Interest in … conference p. 3  Excerpt from Nation 1920 book review of Youth and the Bright Medusa p. 4  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Finding Aids

… Reading Book 1880s Willa Cather ____ 1882 Conrad, Joseph Youth and Two Other Stories 1905 A Merry Christmas to Elsie … Girl Willa Cather 1940     Book BK-207-014 Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Cather 1975     Book BK-207-015 Lucy Gayheart …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
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

… universal themes—and elevated them to a national and international readership (while also elevating Nebraska in … Cather. Programs include the annual Willa Cather  Spring Conferences  and biennial  International Cather Seminars , which aim to foster appreciation and scholarship …
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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