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The town Willa Cather couldn't leave behind.

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From: Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService)
Date: 20020828
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Byline: Julia Keller

RED CLOUD, Neb. _ Sunsets are humdingers in these parts. All day long, the sun sticks to the sky like a sucker on a sidewalk; then suddenly it drops off the edge of the world. Just before it goes, however, the sun delivers an orange-azure radiance to everything it is leaving behind: fields of corn, wheat, milo and soybeans; meditative cows; and in the distance, a tiny town.

This is the land Willa Cather loved and hated. This was her "happiness and curse," as she called the section of south-central Nebraska some 100 miles southwest of Lincoln, just a ...

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