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Visions of the Prairie

… Sandpoint Magazine , Kirby began making art at the age of forty. Although the attempts to capture these mostly … formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and …
Posted: 01/13/2026
Last Updated: 01/14/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … lost, will later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division … many immigrants in the region and listening to their stories. 1884  — Willa Cather and her family move into town. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Novels

… Ours Claude Leaves Nebraska to Go to War "When she can see nothing that has come of it all but evil, she reads Claude's … and something else was there, too,—in her heart, was it, or under her cheek? Anyhow, it was about her somewhere, that … he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023

Bibliography

… My Autobiography  by S. S. McClure (as ghostwriter) 1914 Not Under Forty  1936 Willa Cather On Writing  1949 Writings from …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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 … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … 35.1  Spring 1991  Editor: John J. Murphy  O Pioneers! PBS Premiere May …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… to have cared for these important properties for the last forty years. The Willa Cather Foundation is an excellent … is especially beloved because of Cather’s preserved bedroom under the eaves where she did her first writing and where …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

"Not Stones At All, But Life Itself"

… XXV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, addresses the Cather Spring Conference. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that Willa Cather is partly responsible for my choosing the path … T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, about his long-time love for the works of Willa Cather and …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014

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