![]() ![]() Cather spent her teenage years roaming Red Cloud with friends, putting on plays and experimenting with science. In 1884, Charles Cather, who had not become as fond of the Divide as little Willa, moved the entire Cather clan to the larger settlement of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Soon though, she would take to exploring the countryside and socializing with the other settlers, most of who were European immigrants that would later manifest as characters in her novels. "As we drove further and further out into the country, I felt a good deal as if we had come to the end of everything-it was a kind of erasure of personality," Cather said of her arrival in the west. After a sheep barn burned down on the property in 1883, the Cathers decided to follow in their extended family's lead and journey west, a decision that would ultimately form the dominant themes represented in Willa Cather's writing.įor eighteen months, the Cathers lived on the Nebraskan Divide, a vast, empty grassland region in Webster County, Nebraska. For the first nine years of her life, Cather lived tranquilly on the farm that her father had inherited from his Irish grandfather, Jasper Cather. The twentieth century writer Willa Sibert Cather was the first of seven children born to Charles and Mary Boak Cather on December 7, 1873, in Back Creek Valley, Virginia. ![]()
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