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Fiction · Family saga

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather
1913 · 122 pages

Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's failing Nebraska claim and mortgages it to buy more land while the neighbors give up and leave. Cather made the American prairie a landscape fit for epic.

★ 6.7