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Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … to live in Shenandoah, Iowa. They had a son, Fayette, born about 1891, and a daughter, Genevieve, born about 1894. J. … motto is from Pope’s “Essay on Man,” a line well-loved by newspaper writers. Mrs. Keifer’s father-in-law, J. W. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

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

Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris … Willa Cather Review ,  Cather Studies , and editing the scholarly edition of  One of Ours.  “She was a first-rate …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton Alston was dedicated and unveiled in … year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Visitors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications p. 2  Gifts and Mail Bag p. 2  Future Plans p. 2  … Summer 1975  LITERARY ISSUE Editor: Bernice Slote  TITLE: Three Chautauqua Articles by Willa Cather p. 1  "The Fourth … from Cather's "Eric" p. 3  Cather Memorial Prairie is Setting for Workshop p. 4  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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