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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

… TX-50-1000-003 Framed transcript of TX-50-1000-002     Notebook OBJ-50-1000-004 Notebook Douglass Cather   Journal … and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s founder, Mildred Rhoads Bennett. The collection contains … 1890 n/a Daudet, Alphonse The Immortal: Or, One of the "Forty" 1893 Willa Cather Day, Thomas The History of Sandford …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most prominent recent volumes are … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, … The Song of the Lark  (150)—the Willa Cather who was about forty years of age was ready to do what was needed to …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … the grave of her cousin, G. P. Cather, whose death in World War I and letters written home inspired Cather to … officer and the first person from Webster County to die in World War I. Cather switches publishers from Houghton …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Novels

… Ours Claude Leaves Nebraska to Go to War "When she can see nothing that has come of it all but evil, she reads Claude's … and something else was there, too,—in her heart, was it, or under her cheek? Anyhow, it was about her somewhere, that … he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023

Bibliography

… the Archbishop  1927 Shadows on the Rock  1931 Lucy Gayheart  1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl  1940 Short Fiction … Campus Years  1950 Willa Cather in Europe  1956 The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… words or phrases. Readers may also search by issue under the Issues tab, where individual tables of contents … Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Aims p. 1  Museum Notes and Visitors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications … 18.4:1                         Not Under Forty: quote from, 22.3/4:3                         Obscure …
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 … National Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most … Places and open for guided tours regularly: Willa Cather’s Childhood Home , a National Historic Landmark, was the …
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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