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Willa Cather's spirit still soars in Nebraska town she limned

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19901111
Author:Joan Dunlop

RED CLOUD, Neb. Few small towns in North America hold a larger place in literature than Red Cloud, thanks to a girl who was yanked away from genteel Virginia at age 9 and set down on the iron-stern prairie. Willa Cather came to terms with this harsh frontier, then grew to love the Nebraska prairie and write with great insight about its people.

In 1883, her family migrated to Nebraska, staying first at her grandparents' farm on the prairie, then moving to a rented house in Red Cloud. Willa lived there until 1890, when she went away to college. The childhood home is but one of 29 sites ...

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