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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s … 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

… available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials:   … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Image Annotated map of Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. 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

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek … , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her own writing. In subsequent decades Cather wrote prolifically. …
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

… Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm instead. Lucy Gayheart  is serialized in  Women’s Home Companion  and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… The Professor's House The Professor's House Alexander's Bridge Alexander's Bridge My Mortal Enemy My Mortal Enemy Shadows on the Rock …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

…  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short Fiction The Troll Garden  1905 Youth and the Bright Medusa  1920 Obscure …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Issue  Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: The Themes That Bind--Obscure Destinies  AUTHOR: Claire Mattern p. 1  TITLE: "Two … AUTHOR: Patricia Youngue p. 2  TITLE:  On the Title--Obscure Destinies AUTHOR: JoAnna Lathrop p. 3  TITLE: The …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa Cather’s Lost Work Published for the … wrote prolifically; her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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