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Novels
… educator and would like to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, … make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which … Review Questions 137.76 KB O Pioneers! Alexandra Tames the Wild Land "Bergson had spent his first five years on the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023
Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
… trails to explore. Our unbroken horizons provide excellent sunrises and sunsets, and the prairie is an excellent grassland birding … big with ten-petal mentzelia and several varieties of sunflowers and goldenrod. In between, primroses, asters, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Burlington Depot
… At one time, eight passenger trains (and several grain and livestock trains) passed through town daily, making the Red … entitled The Burlington Railroad: Colonizing Cather's Wild Land . The exhibit emphasizes four themes: disposition of …
Posted: 07/18/2014
Last Updated: 06/06/2021
Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
… treasure consisting of 612 acres of never-been-plowed native prairie. We are working to return this land to its 19th century conditions, a time before the … eastern and western king birds, upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New World blackbird …
Posted: 05/08/2019
Last Updated: 12/17/2020