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Collections Access & Policies

… Collections Access & Policies The National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum collections and archives, and we continue to make new collection materials …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Echoes of the Archbishop

… Image Willa Cather at Mesa Verde Image Willa Cather's circa 1924 map of … Lewis’s Tall Tales of the Southwest,” by David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 04/03/2026

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

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 all American gala days, its origin is seldom referred to and its originator is left in almost total obscurity. … facts of our National existence.” Cather often returned to Red Cloud to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with her …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… The Ribbon-Cutting in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image Hotel Garber in its opening … visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud . The exhibit chronicles …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town … at Bladen where I graduated.  I have fond memories of living in Webster County and living on a farm. The times …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Historic Sites

Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of the preservation movement, restoring and caring for the sites that were important to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … has been the new and ready availability of Cather’s own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

… “Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History” on Friday, August 11 at The Amos Fortune … Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Near Cather’s final resting place in Jaffrey, Alston and Olson will discuss their … Service for the restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, a National Historic Landmark. She earned a master's …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 08/03/2023

Willa Cather and Her Illustrators

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Wednesday, Jun 2, 2021 | 12am - Saturday, Jul 31, … of it . . . .” Henry James, Picture and Text (1893) Willa Cather grew up reading and then publishing during the period …
Posted: 06/02/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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