Willa Cather

Willa Cather was a large American scribe who assisted tourist from New Mexico and increase our tourist business through numerous of her writings. Her tales interpret what life was like for women of her day and how an individuals enclosures sway their whole life. So sit back and relish the life of "The True Pioneer" Willa Cather. (Lewis 45-58)

On December 7, 1871 Willa Siebert Cather was born in Winchester, VA. When Cather was nine, her family shifted to her grandfather's ranch in the Nebraska frontier. Cather's mother had very poor wellbeing so Willa was left mainly alone. She expended most of her time travelling equines and discovering the frontier. Cather did not proceed to school, but she read the Bible out blaring to her grandmother. In 1884, Cather's family shifted to Red Cloud Nebraska where she soaked up what was to become much of the material for her subsequent fiction, such as "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia". Also, Red Cloud would become the backdrop for all of her western villages in her novels. (O'Brien 96-113)

When Cather was 11 she eventually started going to school. One of her older associates, William Ducker, tutored Cather in Latin and Greek when she was in her early teens. Also, Cather took piano from a lecturer Shindelmeisser who became a feature in one of Cather's books. His feature was Professor Wunsch in the publication "The Song of the Lark." Cather, all through her teens, became more and more of a tomboy even at one issue chopping her hair as short as the young men in her school. But, when Willa was 16, she left Red Cloud for a Latin school in Lincoln Nebraska. One year subsequent Cather went into the University of Nebraska. In 1893 she started a normal Sunday pillar in the Nebraska State ...