Copyright © 1985 by the Pioneer ISSN 0197-663X Memorial and Educational Foundation Winter Literary Issue, 1985 Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter VOLUME XXlX, No. 1 Editor, Mildred R. Bennett RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA

WlLLA CATHER Henry Stanley had several sons The youngest of the abducted DAUGHTER OF KINGS and daughters. His daughter Mar- boys died without issue; The eld- garet Stanley married in 1595 est, Joshua, married Elizabeth The story of Willa Cather’s an- Richard Houghton, of Wavertree Sumner of Dorchester, an ances- cestry begins with William the Con- Hall~ near Liverpool, they had an tor of Governor Sumner of Massa- queror whose son Henry the First only son and several daughters. chusetts. was grandfather of Henry II (the, His son Evan Houghton of one who murdered Thomas a Their son John married early, Wavertree Hall, was his heir and moved to Philadelphia but not pro¢- Becket). Henry III, grandson of married Ellen Parker of Bridge Henry II, fathered~ Edward I pering well, moved to the valley ly- Hall, County of Lancashire. They ing between the Blue Ridge and crowned 1274, a crusader, whose had a daughter, an only child son, Edward II, the first Prince of the Great North Mountain. John named Catharine. She married Henshaw and his eldest son, Wales, was crowned, 1307. His William Henshaw, of Poxteth Park, near Liverpool, and they lived with Nicholas moved to that section, son, Edward III, had a son known where he bought land from Lord as John of Gaunt. Gaunt’s daugh- her father at Wavertree Hall. ter married Ralph Neville, Earl of Fairfax. He located on Mill Creek, William Henshaw and his father- Frederick County, Virginia, about Westmoreland. in-law, Evan Houghton, were killed thirteen miles from Winchester. A "Their son, Richard Neville, on the 20th of June, 1644, at the copy of the parchment patent from married the Countess of Salisbury, storming of Liverpool, by Prince Lord Fairfax is available. and he took her title. Their daugh- Rupert. They were fighting against ter, Eleanor Neville, sister of the King Charles I. Nicholas’s son William married Agnes Anderson who became the great Earl of Warwick, the king- In 1651 the wife of William Hen- maker so called, married Sir mother of eleven children, one of Thomas Stanley afterwards cre- shaw died, leaving two sons, whom was Rachel who married M. ated Earl of Derby. His second wife Joshua, age seven, and Daniel, Joseph Lemon. (This body of infor- was Margaret of Lancaster, about eighteen months younger. In mation regarding the Henshaw Duchess of Richmond, and mother 1653 the executor of the estate of Henry VII, King of England." pretended to send those boys to "Thomas Stanley’s son George London to attend school and re- was held as hostage for the fidelity ported afterwards that they both of his father, by Richard II1. Richard died there of the plague. In reality NEBRASKA COMFORT III was killed at the battle of Bos- he sent them to New England and (Occasioned by reading Willa worth and Henry of Richmond was placed them in the family of Rev. Cather’s story "The Best Years") proclaimed on the battlefield by his Richard Mather, of Dorchester, father-in-law, Sir Thomas Stanley, near Boston, an eminent divine, Nebraska blizzard rages as Henry VII." who educated them with the above cedar shingles George Stanley died before his money forwarded for that purpose. as snow mist father. He left two sons, Thomas Their property to a large amount sifts gently down who succeeded his grandfather as was appropriated by the executor on Lesley and second Earl of Derby, and James, to his own use or rather that part her brothers warm who was created a baronet and which came from the Houghton in blanketed beds lived at Crosshall County, Lancas- family. That part which came from thinking of sunflowers. ter, England. James had four sons, Henry Stanley by marriage settle- When mother peeks the three eldest died without issue. ment upon his daughter Margaret into childrens’ garret Henry the youngest succeeded probably went back into the family her vision lingers and inherited the large estates of of Stanleys. The executor of Wil- beyond even death. liam Henshaw’s estate was Peter his father. He married Margaret, -- Richard F. Fleck daughter of Peter Stanley, of Ambrose, a man much employed Department of English Bickenstaff, another branch of the by the Parliamentary Sequestering University of Wyoming family. Committee in 1644-1650. Laramie, Wyoming

Page 1 family is taken from West Virginia that whoever the father might be, the fall of 1868. The next morning, History Magazine 4:149-171 April, the royal blood flowed in the just like Jim again, he gazes on the 1904.) mother’s veins.) strange flat land and its boundless Rachel Lemon was the mother Credit for finding this genealogy stretches of wild shaggy grass goes to John of Lawton, strewn with thousands of purple of Ruhammah Lemon (SAPPHIRA and yellow flowers. Both books de- AND THE SLAVE GIRL) who mar- Oklahoma. He has long been a re- scribe the seasonal round of work ried Jacob F. Seibert, and their searcher on Cather ancestry. Ma- daughter Rachel was Rachel Boak, terials which prove the above on the farm but in a more docu- mentary way in Garland as sug- the maternal grandmother of Willa story, and add much detail too complex to include, are filed with gested by such chapters as "The Cather ("Old Mrs. Harris"). Proof Fall’s Plowing," "Seeding," for the parentage of Joseph Lemon the Cather Historical Center in Red Cloud. "Planting Corn," "Threshing in the and his wife, Rachel, of Ruham- Fields," "The Corn Husking ." As in mah Lemon Siebert lies in the Will -- Mildred R. Bennett Cather’s prairie stories, the cycle Book 4, Page 243 "the Estate of of seasons is described in chap- Joseph Lamon dec’d in account with John Gray guardian to the ters like "Winter Winds," "The TWO CHILDREN OF THE Great Blizzard." Wildlife is studied heirs. Oct. 15, 1805 to 75 cents in "Snaring Gophers" or "The Ter- paid Hiram Baldwin for schooling PRAIRIE ror of the Rattlesnake" or "A Chap- Rheuamah Lamond. Dec. a pair of When one looks for writers who, ter on Prairie Game." We even find shoes for Rheuamah Lamon $1.50 beside Willa Cather, have dealt a chapter called "A Momentous -- March 1806 4 lb. cotton for with the Middle West in a convinc- Wolf-hunt" which brings to mind Reuamah Lamone $1.33 -- August ing way, the name of Hamlin Gar- m however remotely -- the tragic 1806 shoes and stockings for land is one of the first to come to story of Pavel and Peter. More Rheuamah Lamon $2.00. 1808 one’s mind. peaceful pastimes are observed in Sept. cloathing (sic) for Rheumah As early as 1894, in CRUM- "A Fourth of July Celebration," Lamon $9.48." BLING IDOLS Garland deplored "The Coming of the Circus," Marriage account of (and birth the conventional aspect of most "Owen Rides at the Country Fair." of Rachel) Jacob Funk Seibert to stories about the Middle West "ab- Similarly, the monotonous prairie Rohanna Lemmon, p. 38 from THE solutely colorless, when they are life in Cather’s work is brightened SEIBERT FAMILY by Raymond not pirated exotics." As for him, he up by such simple festivities and Martin Bell, Washington, Pennsyl- wanted to describe life on the rejoicings. Finally .A BOY LIFE vania 1959. prairie where he had spent his ends with Lincoln going to college, youth without sentimentality yet just as Jim Burden at the close of In the abstracts of Jacob Seibert with a true appreciation of its posi- Book II leaves Black Hawk for the and his wife, sometimes she is tive aspects. As he was to write University of Lincoln. Such similari- called Rhua and sometimes Rhui. later, in A SON OF THE MIDDLE ties, however striking do not of Sometimes Rhu. (Note various BORDER: "... Is it not time that we course mean that W. Cather was spellings of names m a common of the west should depict our own deliberately imitating Garland. problem in genealogy.) The wills distinctive life? The middle border Considering their personal ex- and abstracts are to be found at has its poetry, its beauty, if we can ~. perience of the middle West it was Martinsburg, West Virginia only see it." almost inevitable that these two From the Will Book No. 25, p. Undeniably, such was the goal gifted children of the prairie should 565, Frederick County, Virginia, he pursued in the numerous short use the sparse material it afforded Jacob F. Seibert leaves his eldest stories he wrote around 1890 and their inspiration. Besides, each child by his last wife a lot of the texts collected under the title author handled it according to his ground. She cannot sell the ground BOY LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE in own temperament and vision, Gar- but can move the house if she 1888. ’land in a more realistic way, Cather wishes. Ruhamah, his wife, was Garland’s stories and Willa Ca- with an ampler imaginative scope. executrix. Dated 28 February 1856 ther’s fiction offer curiously similar Without being unduly partial to her, Jacob Seibert owned one black episodes. Thus the first chapter of it can be said that she expressed man, two black women, one with BOY LIFE entitled "A Night Ride in "the beauty and poetry" of prairie child, two girls and two boys. a P,rairie Schooner" anticipates life more successfully than Gar- (Note: Just in case you notice that MY ANTONIA’s introductory chap- land did. On the other hand, as William Henshaw died in 1644 and ter written some 30 years later. shown by her first critical essays, in 1651 his wife died leaving a Young Lincoln Stewart, just like W. Cather was familiar with Gar- seven-year-old son and one eight- Jim Burden in Nebraska, arrives at land’s work, even though she did een months younger, remember night in Mitchell County, Iowa, in not seem to care for it. She had

Page 2 read his short stories in various (1904) expresses a desperate re- "[the immigrant] is just a part of magazines, including those col- jection of the prairie whose bleak- the setting Garland uses." W. Ca- lected in MAIN-TRAVELLED ness destroys sensitive souls like ther, on the contrary, used the ROADS (1891) and had dismissed Georgiana Carpenter, or in a later prairie as a setting to the human them as uninteresting¯ "Poor Ham- work Mr. Shimerda. In contrast, drama of which immigrants were lin Garland" she wrote in the Garland’s story "Mrs. Ripley’s the main protagonists or more ex- "Nebraska State Journal" (Jan. Trip" published in the Harper’s actly in her stories she fused the 1896) had neither imagination nor Weekly (1888) about a similar land and its people into one power- style, adding for good measure: theme, looks quite serene. After ful theme. Garland undeniably in No man ever tried his hand at many years of backbreaking work, his best succeeded in conveying fiction and persisted in the Old Mrs. Ripley has managed to the "distinctive life of the west," to vain attempt who so utterly save enough money for a trip to quote his own words. Using rough- lacked these essential things her native village in New York ly the same material W. Cather as Mr. Garland. Art is temper- state. Then having fulfilled her achieved more. Better than Gar- ament and Hamlin Garland dream she contentedly returns to land n we believe ~ she can be has no more temperament her farm in the Middle West¯ As op- credited with "telling about the than a prairie dog. posed to "A Wagner Matwnee," the beauty of the country [she] loved, Other hostile u to say the least story is not sad, brightened as it is its romance, the heroism m of its n comments appear here and by the silent solid affection existing people plowed in the very fur- there in various articles signed by between the old woman and her rows of its soil .... " husband, whereas Georgiana Car- W. Cather. Thus in 1895, reviewing Michel Gervaud a play be Franklin Lee, entitled ~)enter must endure her bitter exile Aix en Provence "Nebraska" she manages to kill in the company of a boorish hus- France two birds with one stone: band. . .. Just what there is in this Cather and Garland, though fre- particular .part of the universe quently using the same themes, AND to make a play of it is difficult are artistically extremely different. "THE GREATEST to say. Probably the drama But what they do have in common AMERICAN NOVELIST" wil deal with "barren, wind is an intense feeling of nostalgia swept prairies: fields of for the vanished prairie and youth Seven years after capturing the stunted corn, whose parched forever lost a melancholy which Nobel Prize in Literature, Sinclair leaves rattle like skeletons in in Cather’s work has a more elegi- Lewis agreed to write a weekly the burning south wind," and ac tone. Like Carl Linstrum and Jim literary column for Newsweek all that sort of rot which Mr. Burden, Lincoln Stewart, the hero magazine¯ "Book Week" began on Hamlin Garland and his of BOY LIFE returns to his patria October 4, 1937 and continued school have seen fit to write after a long absence, anxiously through April 18, 1938. In his jum- about our peaceable and looking for vestiges of the ancient bo biography, Sinclair Lewis: An rather inoffensive country¯ prairie. On eventually discovering American Life (1 961), Mark To us, what is rather startling is a still preserved patch of wild land, Schorer comments on only two of that W. Cather here disdainfully re- he is overwhelmed with emotion. Lewis’s 29 Newsweek essays ~ jects the very "sort of rot" she her- What contributes to give Willa "Glorious Dirt" (October 18, 1937) self had already written about, for Cather’s prairie stories a universal and "Seeing Red" (November 19, instance in "Peter," "Lou the appeal perhaps evident in Gar- 1937) ~ the first attacking Hem- Prophet" (1892) and "The Clemen- land’s work is the role ’~mmigrants ingway’s To Have and Have Not, cy of the Court" (1893) and was to play in her stories. W. Cather’s the second blasting Communist treat even more extensively later, early interest in them is too well- writing¯ But at least one more little causing dismay and resentment known to be discussed here¯ Gar- essay buried in the Newsweek among some readers stung by her land as a child in Iowa had Nor- files, Lewis’s first "Book Week" depiction of their "inoffensive" wegian ~laymates, as he recalls in column of the new year (January 3, country¯ Actually in her frontier A SON OF THE MIDDLE BORDER. 1938), seems of equal interest and novels, W. Cather’s vision of the Yet Garland, in his work, does not importance. prairie is more serene than tragic, seem to show immigrants the keen Typically, Sinclair Lewis under- contrary to Garland’s. Yet, in some sympathy Cather felt towards cuts his provocative title "The of her early short stories, W. Ca- them. He is not especially con- Greatest American Novelist" ~ by ther’s inspiration evinces a pessi- cerned with the difficulties they declaring: "There is no such thing mism hardly less intense than Gar- met in adjusting to the New World. as any one most important living land’s in MAIN-TRAVELLED As Roy W. Meyer notes in THE American novelist..." The literary ROADS. "A Wagner Matinee" MIDDLE WESTERN FARM NOVEL journalist, however, accedes to the

Page 3 bookmen’s annual voting game. "gone on creating beauty" and -- and edited by Helen Winter Stauf- Lewis submits 28 nominations and the satiric Lewis cannot resist add- fer has been issued (1983) by Kear- quips that "some are caviar to ing ~ "vigorously not attending ney State College Press. Aunt Mabel and some are to the literary dinners to such awe-inspir- higher critics corned beef." What- Mrs. Westerfield is no novice at ing foreign geniuses as Emil Lud- poetry. Her work has been pub- ever else, Lewis’s mingle-mangle wig and Lady Ludmi.lla Bates- reveals his catholicity of taste. He lished in prestigious journals here Beech, the explorer." Other writ- and abroad. interfuses, for example, Fannie ers have chased after novelty and Hurst, Louis Bromfield, Joseph nihilism, Lewis concludes, but You will be astonished and de- Hergesheimer, Margaret Ayer "quiet and alone, Willa Cather has lighted to find a woman’s meta- Barnes, and Harry Leon Wilson greatly pictured the great life." physical poetry on universal with Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood themes. Cather’s spirit still hovers -- Martin Bucco here. Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Colorado State University Fitzgerald, , Take this one for example: , Thomas Wolfe, , and John Stein- Mrs. Kontos beck. In a few years, Lewis antici- NEW CATHER LETTER Is eighty-odd years of ancient pates, he might add eight more DISCOVERED Greece novelists to his list, among them Lived in these streets of Vardis Fisher, , and Mary Ruth Ryder, on her way Nebraska; Paul Horgan. Finally, Lewis an- home from the Merrimack Cather On sunworthy days, she walks nounces that if he had to choose Symposium, stopped in Winches- Her twin Pekingese dogs, her the "One Greatest" living Ameri- ter, Virginia, to view Sapphira’s own can novelist, his vote would go to country. Peke-faced elderliness black- B Willa Cather. In the Winbhester library as Ms. mantled, Sinclair Lewis’s choice is espe- Ryder looked at a 1931 copy of Becoming the Aegean matron. cially interesting in light of his un- SHADOWS ON THE ROCK, a Mr. Kontos, favorable review of in folded letter from Willa Cather to a Who traveled, has traveled far the New York Evening Post ("A Miss Deane fell out. Apparently it Beneath his stone cross in the Hamlet of the Plains," September has not been noted before in col- graveyard; 22, 1922) and his later disappoint- lections and even the Winchester The Orthodox, for the sake of ment when the went librarian had not seen it before. his soul, Have eaten from bowls of to One of Ours instead of to Bab- The letter I~redates 1927 as both bitt. Despite their radical dissimi- Cather parents are still living. It boiled wheat. laries of temperament and artistry, was given to the Winchester (Had- Speaking with rock-born Lewis had from early on named ley) library by Mrs. Miles Deane on hardihood, Mrs. Kontos recalls his travels, Willa Cather among the potpourri November 29, 1946. of novelists he customarily cham- Her girlhood coming to this Does any reader have a clue as strange place, pioned in his conversations, let- to who Miss Deane might be? ters, lectures, and articles. Now her grief. In the sun, her The Winchester library displays features "No other," asserts Lewis in his ~)aintings from our Red Cloud art Dent like a sundial, her nose forgotten Newsweek piece, "has gallery. A sweep of shadow keeping so preserved our frontier -- from time Nebraska Lutherans to Quebec Ms. Ryder also discovered that September 3, 1832 her great-great- For Ulysses’ widow, in padres B as she has .... Yet no Penelope’s broken face. one has more lucidly traced the great grandfather, Augustine post-pioneer than she has..." For Blacker, sold to James Cather a Welded Women may be ordered Sinclair Lewis, Cather’s A Lost parcel of land previously pur- from the Willa Cather Pioneer Me~ Lady ranks not only with Wharton’s chased by her great-great-great- morial and Educational Foundation Ethan Frome, Frederic’s The Dam- great grandfather in 1830. for $3.50 plus $1.50 postage. nation of Theron Ware, and (Condensed from a letter to Mildred Ben- Norris’s McTeaque, but also with nett from Mary Ruth Ryder, July 9, 1984.) the best of Crane, Howells, and Hawthorne. Lewis proposes: phi- WESTERN AMERICAN lanthropists should donate the LITERARY CRITICISM WELDED WOMEN Houghton Mifflin 12-volume auto- Dr. Martin Bucco, Western graphed edition of her works to li- Welded Women, a collection of American Literary Criticism, West- braries. For 35 years she has poetry by Nancy A. Westerfield ern Writers Series No. 62 begins

Page 4 his crisp but comprehensive sur- fine articles from the Second .Na- ica in the first two decades of the vey of Western literary criticism tional Cather Seminar of 1983. The century. with a time, 1758, when west. issue also includes eight beautiful The theme for Chautauqua ’85 is meant over the Appalachian Moun- photos from the Lucia Woods Col- "Writers on the Plains."-The five- tains. By 1815 William Tudor be- lection. day humanities extravaganza will lieved that by the next century the Order your copy now from The feature a moderator portraying Noble Savage would be found only Hamlin Garland, whose harshly on Pacific shores. Another 1815 Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, 326 North Webster, Red Cloud, Ne- realistic stories of the plains fron- essay by Walter Channing claims tier revolutionized American litera- the English language made for the braska 68970. Thames could not describe the The price is $4.00 plus postage ture, and Wiila Cather, William Mississippi -- one needed the oral and handling $1.50. Allen White, Mad Sandoz, and Sin- tongue of the aborigines. clair Lewis. Last month the Chau- tauqua Society selected human- From these early Eastern mis- ities scholars to portray the five conceptions Dr. Bucco traces writers. Western criticism and the rise of WINTER ’84 distinctly Western literary maga- PRAIRIE SCHOONER The summer season will begin in zines. Kansas in mid-June. The tent pro- An article by Susan J. Rosowski gram will move north to Nebraska Western ~rit.er.s_ come much closer than their Eastern counter- and Bernice Slote, Willa Cather’s and South Dakota in July, and to parts to exploring the meaning of 1916 Mesa Verde Essay: The North Dakota in the first two weeks life. Genesis of The Professor’s House. of August. Chautauqua begins on Wednesday in each community, Dr. Bucco’s book is so crammed Order your copy from The Willa with information that a synopsis is Cather Pioneer Memorial, 326 with afternoon workshops and two- impossible. However, if you think North Webster, Red Cloud, Ne- hour programs each evening his 55 page condensation of more braska 68970. through Sunday. Evening pro- than 200 years of opinion on the grams begin with local entertain- The price is $3.25 plus postage ment -- fiddlers, town storytellers West and its inhabitants might and handling $1.50. bore you, you do not know Dr. Buc- and poets, singers, dancers, and co’s wit, talent for ironic thrusts, local thespians. Hamlin Garland and good-natured humor which il- will serve as host and moderator. luminates all his work. He will each evening introduce one TWO BOOKS FOR author, who will offer a 50-minute Don’t continue your literary pur- CATHER LIBRARY suits without this succinct sum- dramatic characterization of his or mary of how our literature looks to Richard Fleck, Department of her life and ideas. On Sunday eve- a keen wit and perceptive mind. English, University of Wyoming, ning all five authors will share the Order: Western American Lit- has sent two of his books of poetry stage in the Chautauqua Forum, erary Criticism by Martin Bucco for the Cather Foundation Library. loosely modeled on Steve Allen’s (University of Colorado). Please They are Bamboo in the Sun popular Meeting of the Minds. send orders to Poems of Japan and Cottonwood Chautauqua ’85 will examine BSU Bookstore Moon. how well these writers have ex- Attn,: Western Writers Series plored, the Great Plains experi- Boise State University ence. Hamlin Garland home- Boise, Idaho 83725 steaded in South Dakota, then left Cost is $2.00 plus 75¢ postage CHAUTAUQUA ’85 the Midwest to write soberingly and handling. realistic accounts of the hardships Chautauqua Week of frontier. He was particularly You need this book for its knowl- The Great Plains Chautauqua sympathetic to the plight of Indians edge and its wit. To cover 250 years in 55 pages takes discrimina- Society is encouraging commit- and women on the plain. Sinclair tion! tees in Kansas, Nebraska, South Lewis lashed small town values Dakota, and North Dakota to con- throughout his life. He found main -- Mildred R. Bennett sider hosting the summer human- street American claustrophobic, ities tent show in its 10th season. bigoted, intolerant, and smug. Any The Chautauqua tent will visit two yet he maintained a lifelong fasci- GREAT CATHER communities in each state begin- nation with the people who strug- ning mid-June 1985. The Great gled in those confining and narrow- READING Plains Chautauqua is a recreation minded towns to achieve lives of The "Great Plains Quarterly," of the entertaining and educational integrity and dignity. Mari Sandoz Fall 1984 issue is out with eight tent circuits that toured rural Amer- wrote sad and heroic accounts of

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YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE LIFE AND GROWTH AIMS OF THE WCPM OF THE ORGANIZATION ¯ To promote and assist in the development and preservation ¯ By bein0 a Cather Memorial Member and financial contri- of the art, literary, and historical collection relating to the life, butor: time, and work of Willa Cather, in association with the Ne- BENEFACTOR ...... $1,000.00 and over braska State Historical Society. ANNUAL MEMBERSHIPS ¯ To cooperate with the Nebraska State Historical Society in Patron ...... $100.00 continuing to identify, restore to their original condition, and Sustaining ...... 25.00 ;)reserve places made famous by the writing of Willa Cather. Family ...... 15.00 ¯ To provide for Willa Cather a living memorial, through the Individual ...... 10.00 Foundation by encouraging and assisting scholarship in the WCPM members receive: field of the humanities. Newsletter subscription To perpetuate an interest throughout the world in the work Free guided tour to restored buildings of Willa Cather. ¯ By contributing your Willa Cather artifacts, letters, papers, For Newsletter Donation Only ...... and Dublications to the Museum. $5.00 Foreign Mailing ...... 6.00 ¯ By contributing your ideas and suggestions to the Board of Governors. BOARD OF GOVERNORS Keith Albers Robert E. Knoll Ronald W. Roskens ALL MEMBERSHIPS, CONTRIBUTIONS AND William Thomas Auid, M.D. Etla Cather Lewis Susan J. Rosowski BEQUESTS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE Bruce P. Baker. II Lucia Woods Lindley David E. Scherman Mildred R. Bennett Catherine Cather Lowell C. Bertrand Schultz Under Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1965 W. K. Bennett. M.D. John March Marian Schultz Vi Borton Dale McDole Margaret Cather Shannon Don E Connors Midam Mountford Betty Sherwood Special group memberships (such as clubs or businesses) are Josephine Frisbie John J. Murphy Heten Cather Southwick David Garwood Harry Obitz Marcella Van Meter available. Write to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial for details. Bon Hull Jennie Reiher

the struggle of plains Indians to grants in our literature. William CATHER TOUR maintain their nomadic and mystic Allen White was a progressive jour- culture. And in her great biography nalist in Kansas, one of the most Plans for the European Cather OLD JULES, Sandoz offered Amer- influential men of his age, and an Tour will soon be completed. ican readers one of the most indefatigable observer of the plains Watch your mail for a brochure giv- honest and vivid portraits of the as they came of age at the turn of ing prices and itinerary. Only 40 homesteader, beseiged by an un- the cemury. His essays, "What’s may participate in this tour, there- compromising land, sometimes the Matter with Kansas," and fore those who register first will be hostile Indians, and predatory "Kansas Is a State of Mind," were the fortunate ones for 1985. Al- ranchers. Willa Cather wrote extremely influential in White’s day ready five places have been re- novels of great delicacy and a and after. served, no questions asked, there- marvelous sensitivity to the small Dr. Helen Winter Stauffer of fore, act immediately if you wish to moments in life that are in fact of join us. the greate, st significance. Her Kearney College will portray Marl novel, MY ANTONIA, is an Ameri- Sandoz and Sally McNall of Kan- can classic, and one of the most sas will depict Willa Cather. thoughtful accounts of plains immi- Watch for further information.

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