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Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit

… Image Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit September 25, 2019 In the recent … Memorial collection, we were happy to run across this postcard of Willa Cather to Charles Moore. Written during …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 3  Also in this issue: Poem for Cather by Leonard Gilley, reprinted in 1966 Prairie Schooner p. 3  … TITLE: Word Music in "The Ancient People," Part IV of The Song of the Lark  AUTHOR: Stephen Tatum p. 25  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

New Photos Join the Jack and Irma Cather Collection

… Image New Photos Join the Jack and Irma Cather Collection November 19, 2020 Throughout the year, … to light, including a John A. Bulkley portrait of teenaged Willa Cather, circa 1888. Bulkley, a Civil War veteran from … team, above, circa 1909. Printed on an uncirculated postcard, a handwritten note on the back of the card …
Posted: 11/19/2020
Last Updated: 12/28/2020

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

"Greatness Returning to Simplicity":

… Image Death Comes for the Archbishop first edition Image Cather Postcard from Arizona … "Greatness Returning to Simplicity": Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop Regularly considered one of …
Posted: 01/29/2026
Last Updated: 01/30/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… niece, 1909 Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud November 7, 2025 "There we have short, bitter … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour

… Our tour guide, Garrett Peck, will lead us on a 2 hour  Death Comes for the Archbishop  walking tour, retracing Cather's steps through …
Posted: 10/30/2025
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!

… Image Cather wrote to decline a lecture request in 1925, using … visit the Cathedral on your own before joining the National Willa Cather staff for a drink and small bites nearby, … He leads the Willa Cather’s Santa Fe walking tour, and is writing a book about Cather wrote  Death Comes …
Posted: 09/18/2023
Last Updated: 10/15/2024

Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … retiring in 1877 when she was almost ninety. In addition to writing “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Hale is perhaps best known …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman

… also lived in the house, it was full of both Cather family artifacts and period historical pieces; she hosted several … the years. After her death, a great deal of Wagner’s Cather collections were donated to us in Red Cloud, including … only image of Prettyman identified. Research continues to learn more about Prettyman’s life; his military records and …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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