O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A strong, far-seeing young woman holds on to her family's hard Nebraska land when everyone else would give up, and by faith and labour turns the wild country into rich farms, through decades of endurance, tragedy, and love. Cather's luminous prairie novel.

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