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Cather Book Club: Sapphira and the Slave Girl

… On April 21 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss Sapphira and the Slave Girl . There are two meeting times available; 4:00 p.m. at …
Posted: 12/07/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Finding Aids

… association with them are available on microfilm: The Index of Pittsburg Life , The Library , The Home Monthly , … 10/3/1968 The Red Cloud Chief 10/1/1873 to 11/22/1923 The Index of Pittsburg Life 10/6/1900 to 1/4/1902 The Library … Book Inventory Box 11 Research Materials Full box of index cards and notes for Mildred Bennett's book,  The World …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Through Darkness to Light

Image Decision to Leave, Magnolia Plantation on the Cane River, Louisiana, 2013 Image Hunter’s Bottom, Just Across the Ohio River; Outside of Madison, Indiana, 2014 Image Hidden Passage, Mammoth Cave; Barren County, Kentucky, 2014 Image Look for the Grey …
Posted: 01/12/2026
Last Updated: 02/13/2026

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

Image Nebraska's Underground Railroad Special Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Enjoy an afternoon filled with art and history! Nebraska historian Bill Hayes …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 02/10/2026

Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … Red Cloud. The MLA International Bibliography lists almost 1300 publications on Cather and her works appearing since … her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of other places found …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four … in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in  Century  at …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023

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