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Lucy Gayheart

… to the big city of Chicago, leaving behind the small-town politics of Haverford, Nebraska, in 1902. Lucy is pursuing … Lucy Gayheart  (1935) was Cather’s last novel set on the Great Plains and has drawn critical attention to it as a gothic …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … 1880   Document TEX-250-391-053 Financial Agreements, Clark Cather and George P. Cather   1878-1882   Document … of Warsaw n/d n/a Pound, Louise, ed. American Ballads and Songs 1922 H773-4. 100 Poushkin, Alexander The Prose Tales …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

…    –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather Center’s historic Burlington Depot will soon welcome … hands-on activities focused around railroad history, the literary legacy of the Burlington, and the railway as a …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not … a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in  O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Support

… of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an early play, “The West Bound Train.” Now …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… writings: the short story "Two Friends," and the novel Lucy Gayheart . The bank is also the first building owned and …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

… and novels A Lost Lady, The Professor’s House, and Lucy Gayheart are woven together and reimagined to tell a story …
Posted: 02/18/2021
Last Updated: 07/23/2024

Making a Place Exhibit Opening!

… writings: the short story "Two Friends," and the novel  Lucy Gayheart . The bank is also the first building owned and …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County … the Little Blue and Republican rivers in south central Nebraska, 16 miles northwest of Red Cloud. Charles and Mary … name to “Willa” later.  Silas Garber is elected governor of Nebraska. 1874  — Willa Cather and her parents move into the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

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