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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Faulkner and Wharton. Life & Literature Recent News Shop Books & Gifts The Willa Cather Foundation is a … Students & Teachers Upcoming Events Upcoming Events Recent News Recent News The Big Read of My Ántonia Programs Offered to …
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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 … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 3  Gifts Received p. 3  Increased Interest in Cather--High School and College p. 3  Notice of Board Member Grace … of Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Herb Hyde p. 19  TITLE: A Great Plains Center Tribute to Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Herb Hyde p. … Fadiman, ed.), 10.1:3              "Going Home (Burlington Route)" poem, 10.2:2; typescript of, 13.2:2              …
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Finding Aids

… c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van Vechten, Carl Vermorcken [see Moorhead] … & Morgan 1947 Correspondence TEX-62-035 Note regarding gift Marsha Brockway 2012?   Willard Crowell Collection Date … The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1908 Cather Fraser, Robert Three Men and a Maid 1907 Mrs. C.F. Cather Funk and Wagnalls …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Month, a time when archivists across the country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … on my reference shelf: The World of Willa Cather , by Mildred Bennett, our founder and one of a handful of people …
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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 …
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Press Room

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
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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 …
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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 …
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