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… Incoming Receipts, George P. Cather F.C. Taylor & Co,  Evening Star , Ed Fitzgerald, Chicago House Wrecking Co., … A Merry Christmas, 1913, Mother Campbell, Killis The Seven Sages of Rome 1907 Elsie Margaret Cather Campbell, … Willis The Open Door 1889 Mrs. C.F. Cather Howells, W.D. Evening Dress 1893 Elsie Margaret Cather Hughes, T. Tom …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles

… experience that will guide people through the sacred lands at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds … the U.S. government forced Indigenous people off their lands, destroyed burial mounds and built a railroad over the … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … Mad Women  (Dancing Girl Press, 2017),  Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide  (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and  The …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… she enters the world of formal study in the urban Chicago landscape, her musical parameter shifts to a classic, … Kronborg’s ascent to the height of her musical career.  She lands the plum role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s  Die … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County

… lacked many of the common plants to be found on the Central Plains and to the West. Thankfully, others were quicker to … the director of—the Department of Natural History and Geology at Doane College. The 1891 letter answers a letter … from Swezey about classification of wildflowers of the Great Plains did become accepted within the scientific …
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