![]() ![]() Enter Willa Cather with her 1913 novel, O Pioneers, to capture the loneliness and darkness of life on the plains. ![]() The novel also concerns two romantic relationships - one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Lindstrom, and another between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. In the early 1900s people in the prairie states started going insane, literally. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. O Pioneers is the first novel of Cathers prairie trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark (1915) and My Antonia (1918). Download cover art Download CD case insert O Pioneers! ![]()
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