Willa cather's o pioneers7/6/2023 The land here was never plowed, and with careful cultivation it preserves the prairie as Cather roamed it, in the eighteen-eighties-an immemorial zone of grass, trees, birds, water, and wind. At the bottom, you no longer see traces of modern civilization, though you can hear trucks on Route 281 as they clamber out of the Kansas flats. You park at the top of a hill and follow a path down to a gulch, where a creek widens into a pond. Cather spent much of her childhood in Red Cloud, six miles up the road, and for many people who love her writing, and perhaps for some who don’t, the Cather Prairie is one of the loveliest places on earth. At the southern edge of the county, a few hundred feet north of the Nebraska-Kansas border, is a six-hundred-acre parcel of land called the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. In Webster County, Nebraska, the prairie rolls in waves, following the contours of a tableland gouged by rivers and creeks. Photograph from Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries The Nebraska plains gave Willa Cather the stuff of epics.
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