![]() ![]() ![]() One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. He begins by calling the pioneers together and urging them to go west. During his life, Whitman celebrated this expansion and everything that resulted from it. With this new style, as she told her friend, she “hit the home pasture. Version 12 was corrected by Martin Robb () O Pioneers by Willa Cather. O Pioneers ' is Whitmans ode to the sacrifices of the pioneers who settled the American West. Her experiences there–and the confidence she regained–made her feel that her “mind had been freshly washed and ironed, and were ready for a new life.” With O Pioneers! she attempted a new kind of writing, something far afield from the Boston and London environs of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge. ![]() In 1912, she had just left her job at McClure’s Magazine and ventured to Arizona to visit her brother. The book, which Cather called her second “first novel,” emerged at a critical period in Cather’s life. O Pioneers tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of. ![]() Andy Jewell, editor of the Willa Cather Archive () and co-editor of the new Selected Letters of Willa Cather, will discuss the story behind the writing and publishing of O Pioneers!, the 2013 “One Book, One Nebraska” selection that is also celebrating its 100th anniversary. ![]()
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