![]() ![]() However, there was something about the Great Plains outside her door that caught her imagination. ![]() Her father, Charles, became a businessman, and her mother had been a schoolteacher, so Cather’s destiny as a town-dweller and intellectual seemed set. “There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made… I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction… Between that earth and that sky, I felt erased, blotted out.” This child’s-eye view of the Great Plains, the grassy seas of Nebraska, comes from one of America’s greatest observers, Willa Cather, “speaking” here as young Jim Burden in her novel My Àntonia.Ĭather, born Wilella Cather in 1873, was nine when her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska, first trying to farm and then settling in the town of Red Cloud. ![]()
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