A Lost Lady
Willa Cather
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Description
Willa Cather wrote A Lost Lady, a novel of the prairie West in a Knopf printing of nineteen sixty-three. Thirty or forty years before the tale, a grey town on the Burlington railroad held a house famed from Omaha to Denver. Its fame rested on warm welcome and a charm in the air. Railroad men of rank dropped off the express to spend a night there.
The house was that of Captain Daniel Forrester, a railroad contractor who built hundreds of miles of road. It stood on a low round hill east of Sweet Water, in a grove of cottonwoods. Cather sets two classes side by side, the homesteaders who worked for a living and the bankers who came west to invest. The house and its hosts open the tale in two parts.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Willa Cather |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 183 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |