O PIONEERS! by Willa Cather (Willa Cather Prairie Trilogy #1) WESTERNS: Comprehensive Collection of Classic Western Novels

The first of her renowned prairie novels-a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.