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Portraits of the Prairie - The Land that Inspired Willa Cather (Hardcover)
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Portraits of the Prairie - The Land that Inspired Willa Cather (Hardcover)
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"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the
water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie
the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are
first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole
country seemed, somehow, to be running."--"My Antonia," Willa
Cather
It is often called "Catherland"--Webster County, Nebraska, where
the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her
childhood and found inspiration for her stories of European
immigrants on the prairie. Richard Schilling, with his watercolor
paintings and ink sketches, conducts us to that land, to scenes
that might have influenced Cather, but as they appear today.
Schilling's images take us to Red Cloud, Cather's childhood home;
to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, a botanical jewel of
mixed-grass prairie restored to its pre-1900 condition; and on to
"the divide," the high prairie land between the Little Blue River
to the north and the Republican River to the south. Each evocative
original watercolor is paired with an excerpt from Cather's work
and with the author's own musings on the history, geography, and
ecology of the landscape.
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