O Pioneers!

“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.” . . . “The land belongs to the future . . . that’s the way it seems to me. . . . I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother’s children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.” — Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Willa Cather — born in Back Creek, Virginia, in 1873 — was nine when she and her family moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska.