In the first of Willa Cather's renowned prairie novels, Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death and falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman, writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska ...
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