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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie … Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… Image Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, 2019 Jerry and Susan Anderson live in the Des Moines, Iowa … stock; Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us to picture what life …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner

… Image Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner September 25, 2019 Some kids growing up in Webster County, Nebraska, … about where I lived,” Karr explained. She has also read O Pioneers!  and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the … Helianthus annuus  and  Helianthus petiolarus . Mormon pioneers described finding sage and sunflowers in 1850s Utah …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… Image Meet Intern William Kelly June 26, 2019 It is both refreshing and encouraging to have young … to do), but I would say my favorite book is tied between O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark . The former because …
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Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society

… Image Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society May 24, 2017 Reflecting back on her first Spring Conference many … and responsive to the lessons embedded in her novels.” In O Pioneers! , Ryder’s favorite Cather novel, Cather wrote, …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital

… Image New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital September 9, 2015 LINCOLN, Neb. (Sept. 2, 2015) – Nebraska author Willa … of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private Willa Cather tells …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
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2013 Spring Conference

… Image 2013 Spring Conference June 5, 2012   "We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who … celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit the home pasture." The novel …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… Image Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge December 29, 2011 The Willa Cather Foundation is excited to promote continued reading of … List: January: Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: …
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