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Experience America’s Literary Legacy
… Image Experience America’s Literary Legacy Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, … the sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the … or the deep and immense pageant of the night sky. Take a walk (and bring a picnic) amidst the great ocean of land …
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Finding Aids
… Jr., Private Library No. 22 Alcott, Louisa M. Old-Fashioned Girl 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 24 Alcott, … Romance of the Ku Klux Klan 1907 Back page: "pg. 124, 125 Slavery" Dixon, Thomas, Jr. The Southerner: A Romance of the … Cather's Campus Years Willa Cather 1950 Book BK-207-013 Sapphira and the Slave Girl Willa Cather 1940 Book …
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Home for the Holidays
… Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025 | 4 - 5pm Saturday, Dec 20, 2025 | 11am - 12pm Saturday, Dec 20, 2025 | 1 - 2pm Saturday, Dec … depictions turn up in novels and short stories such as My Ántonia and "The Burglar's Christmas." She likely carried …
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All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture
… of the railway! When the railroad opened in Red Cloud in 1878, the fortunes of the town were forever changed. Our … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an …
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Group and Motorcoach Tours
… Group and Motorcoach Tours Discover the World of Willa Cather on the … Willa Cather—Nebraska’s "foremost citizen" and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia and One of Ours. Image Historic …
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Guided Willa Cather Tours
… Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our historic sites are open … historic sites associated with Willa Cather's life and writing. Guests should have their own transportation and …
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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity
… for the challenge, your gift must be received by December 31. Thank you! DONATE This year the Cather Center proudly completed a nationwide “Big Read” of My Ántonia , and what an inspiring journey it has been! Across …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift
… Gift Inspired by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not have been Richard Harris’s … were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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