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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most … family. We look forward to welcoming you! Book a Tour About the Restoration Get Involved Support Our Work The …
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 … 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 …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 16.1  Winter 1972 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Cather Horne Named … 22.3 and 22.4  1978  (MAKEUP LITERARY NEWSLETTER) Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Captured Shadows  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Finding Aids

… Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … of books, limited editions, and books by other authors but selected by Cather for gifts are included in this …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… I don't think she did. I find it variously attributed to "old sodbusters" or "early Dakota settlers" or generic "Willa … collection, housing them in preservation-quality boxes and folders, and ensuring a proper storage environment and … (and can quote from Cather's letters!), Woodress remains a gold standard for many. Webster County: Visions of the Past , …
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

… 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 …
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 editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not Pittsburger, … them up etc. You know what I want, personal matter that the newspapers dont give. Of course I will keep your name out of …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Remembering Our Fallen

… Fallen September 12, 2011 Remembering Our Fallen . In the gallery September 19-25 A very emotional exhibit, … American Heroes and speak their names when we see their family members,” said Bill Williams, exhibit co-creator. The … for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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