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There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which… — Willa Cather

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There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Willa Cather
My Antonia · 1918
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American frontierAmerica
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Novel
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1918
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Willa Cather
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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.
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Cather, Willa, My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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