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Finding Aids

… with much Love, Willie October 1st, 1915 No dust jacket Youth and the Bright Medusa BK-50-309 Willa Cather 1920 1st trade Willa Sibert …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

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 …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… in it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … poetry and prose have appeared in  Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Electric Literature, LitHub, New England …
Posted: 07/08/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023

Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… acquaintances and friendships with the leading musicians of her day, and wrote them into her novels, short stories, … and grim, as influenza besets his troopship. In Book V, “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On,” as Claude embraces nobility of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023

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 …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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