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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 … address books, journals, and sales ledgers for her novels, as well as hundreds of objects that belonged to the … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… postcard to her niece, 1909 Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud November 7, 2025 "There … in town, you're welcome to make an appointment to visit the archives and see firsthand some of Cather's own personal …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

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

… An eyesore at the corner of two major intersecting highways, the Potter building had been vacant and decaying for … recalled these occasions in both her published work and private letters. Now joined with the Center’s preserved … gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant awards from the Nebraska …
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 … in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town … and affordably priced. Art purchases from the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery benefit the artist and help support our …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Historic Sites

… to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I talked about Cather in Webster County,” Mildred Bennett said in an … author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … Song of the Lark. The home was acquired by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960 and opened to visitors in 1967. Many of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Collections Policies

… of images from the National Willa Cather Center materials must be approved in writing and may be subject to a  usage … For home video format, add $100 per image Translations:  Contact the WCF for pricing. Microforms and Facsimiles:  Contact the WCF for pricing.  Request for Collections Access …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/02/2024

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

… Fortune Forum Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol Image Ashley Olson, Executive … as a mature artist in the prime of her career. His bronze sculpture of Cather was installed in the U.S. Capitol on …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 08/03/2023

Willa Cather and Her Illustrators

… a path for artists to achieve nationwide recognition, in a way that gallery exhibition and private collection could not. Cather and the artists who … art, and that it is worth caring about, than in any other way.” This exhibit explores eight of Cather’s illustrators, …
Posted: 06/02/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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