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Alexander's Bridge

… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Acquisition Information:  Acquisition information is incomplete; the collection has been in Red Cloud for more than …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View

… Greenwich Village, by Lew Ney (born Luther Emanuel Widen, 1886-1963), circa 1925. Annotations from the Archives: New Year, … work and instead was finishing up proofreading Alexander's Bridge and beginning a new novel, which would become O …
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 …
Posted: 05/04/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… and was the cultural center of the town—it hosted concerts, speakers, and performers. There the young Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912  — Cather’s first novel,  Alexander’s Bridge , appears in  McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Book Club Resources

… to welcome your book club to Cather’s hometown! Take a tour of the town that raised Cather and peek into historical … childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Burlington Depot, the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

Bibliography

… Medusa  1920 Obscure Destinies  1932 The Old Beauty and Others  1948 Willa Cather's Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912  1965 Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… issue: Poem for Cather by Leonard Gilley, reprinted in 1966 Prairie Schooner p. 3  … "Eric" p. 3  Cather Memorial Prairie is Setting for Workshop p. 4  … Steve Shively Receives Awards p. 74  Cottey/Cather Emerging Writers Conference Held at Cather Center p. 75  Opera House …
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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