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Death Comes for the Archbishop

… of native beliefs and Catholicism.   Instead of the Nebraska prairies that made Willa Cather famous, Death Comes …
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O Pioneers!

… Image Vintage cover of O Pioneers! O Pioneers! Book Club Resources O Pioneers!  (1913) was Willa …
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The <i>Ties</I> That Bind

… "—railroads that brought them and their neighbors to Nebraska in the first place, railroads that put towns on the …
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Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava

… will be on hand to talk about her impressive career as a Nebraska author who writes in the tradition of other Nebraska mystery novelists such as the late Mignon … Mystery of Hunting's End , Eberhart's 1930 book set in the Nebraska Sand Hills is the 2023 One Book One Nebraska …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn more … of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled forests of …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… and misunderstandings.  Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About the Author Tracy …
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My Ántonia

… driven to suicide by the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… documenting the arrival of Carnegie Libraries throughout Nebraska, published interviews with Andrew Carnegie and …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! She frequented … the essence of Cather's context and enlighten listeners about the meaning of Cather's inclusion in her own writing. …
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John William Boone & Cather

… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s  My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient Roman … to render her Nebraska experiences in a new way. In a 1918 review for  The Dial ,  Randolph Bourne writes of  My …
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