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Visions of the Prairie

… Sandpoint Magazine , Kirby began making art at the age of forty. Although the attempts to capture these mostly … formal piano instruction for seventeen years. He worked under Robert Howat of Wittenberg University of Ohio, and …
Posted: 01/13/2026
Last Updated: 03/18/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … Margorie Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966 Lazard, Claude, Mrs. Leah, Henry Goddard Lesser, Joseph Litchfield, Ethel … Roseboro', Viola Rosický, Rose, 1875-1954 Rubens, Pauline Meyer Rubin, Florance Rumbold, Hugo Russo, M. Ryce, Lucius …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… miles by team and wagon to the precinct of Catherton. They settle at the homestead of William and Caroline Cather. … oration in the Red Cloud Opera House. One of only three members in her class, Cather is the only student not … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Novels

… Wild Land "Bergson had spent his first five years on the Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting out. He …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023

Bibliography

… The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … 43.3  Winter-Spring 2000  Editor: Merrill Skaggs  TITLE: Approaching the Mesa  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several decades-long … sites and approximately 8,000 Cather related archival and museum artifacts, returns to local control the largest single … Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most iconic writers. …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

"Not Stones At All, But Life Itself"

… Image "Not Stones At All, But Life Itself" June 4, 2009 The Right … prefatory note to her collection of essays entitled Not Under Forty , "the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts." …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014

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