Willa Cather wrote some of the most enduring American novels about the land and the people who worked it. This travelogue traces the landscapes that inspired O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop — from the rolling plains of Red Cloud, Nebraska, where Cather grew up, to the high desert plateaus of New Mexico.
The Nebraska portion of the journey explores the Divide — the broad, flat prairie that Cather described with such lyrical precision. The immigrant families who homesteaded this land, their struggles and their resilience, are woven through her fiction and through the actual towns and farmsteads that still bear their traces.
Death Comes for the Archbishop takes the journey southwest to New Mexico, where Cather found a landscape of ancient civilizations and Spanish colonial history that gave her fiction an entirely new dimension. Together, these two regions illuminate the full range of one of American literature's most important voices.
Every Travelogue Includes
- ◆Audio-visual presentation
- ◆Literary and historical immersion into the region
- ◆Handouts and reference materials
- ◆Accommodation recommendations
- ◆Recipes from the area
- ◆Featured hotel and inn highlights
- ◆Discussion of the featured literature or novel
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