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Lucy Gayheart

… Image Lucy Gayheart Book Club Resources Lucy Gayheart is a bright eighteen-year-old who heads to the big …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

All Aboard! West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an early play, “The West Bound Train.”  After …
Posted: 04/30/2026
Last Updated: 04/30/2026

Support

… Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the Center provides almost 20,000 square … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

Finding Aids

…  ____________ Bulk dates:  1878-1921 Finding Aid created by Lucy Koenig and Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2023 Copyright: … Alfred Henry Peggy O'Neal 1903 Dickenson Duel Lillie, Lucy C. The Household of Glen Holly 1900 To Elsie Cather … (Copy pp. 47-72 199-200)     Manuscript Tx-50-4000-F05 Lucy Gayheart  Typescript (Copy pp. 22-118)     Magazine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture A new permanent exhibit for the Burlington Depot “The station … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an … from and be inspired by the trusted information, ideas, and stories they contain about our diverse natural and cultural …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go. " —Willa Cather, in a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] … book in the afternoon, or winding down in the evening with friends. Reservations and Policies Price for one room: …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… Image Image Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud A New Permanent Exhibit for the Farmers & … became acquainted with Lyra and Silas Garber during her childhood in Red Cloud and used them as prototypes for … in two of Cather's other writings: the short story "Two Friends," and the novel Lucy Gayheart . The bank is also the …
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!

… A Long History of Red Cloud  invites visitors to explore Willa Cather's novel  A Lost Lady through topics that are both … Cooperative Producers, Inc. B. Keith and Norma F. Heuermann Foundation Rick and Kay Stahly In Memory of Doris Hunter …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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