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Alexander's Bridge

… made.  Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be considered her first real attempt at a book, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … OBJ-50-1000-016 Willa Cather     Document Tx-50-1000-017 Articles of Indenture     Document TX-50-1000-018 Jeremiah …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O Pioneers!. A new locale was just the thing!  In this …
Posted: 01/02/2026
Last Updated: 01/21/2026

Short Biography of Willa Cather

… translated into over forty languages. Widely celebrated for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of … her tombstone, which features these memorable words from My Ántonia : “that is happiness; to be dissolved into …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… special arrangements for a book club visit to Red Cloud.  O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My Ántonia  1918 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… A Review from 1913  AUTHOR: Richard King p. 3  TITLE: Books and Magazines  AUTHOR: Bertha Torrence p. 4  … 17.4  Fall 1973 Editor Miriam Mountford:  Your WCPM Membership p. 1  Cather Commemorative Stamp--First … Sell p. 6  Rev. Morris Cather of Gore, Virginia to give guided tours of that area p. 6  With the Scholars... p. 8  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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