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By far the best Willa Cather archive is produced by her alma mater, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. UNL is the best school in the world for all things Cather: scholarship, cultural events, lectures, conferences, and the archive. The archive is comprehensive and up to date, the interface has aesthetic appeal and is easy to navigate. The main categories: writings, letters, life, gallery, multimedia, scholarship, text analysis, community, and search are further subdivided by rollover drop down options. There is also a links page in the community drop down menu which directs you outside the university archives to the Willa Cather Foundation, et.al. The archive can be found at: [[http://cather.unl.edu/|http://cather.unl.edu/

]]Another good Cather archive is produced by Nebraska State Historical Society. This site is dedicated to the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, Cather's childhood hometown. Red Cloud is also the the model of many of her fictional western towns in her novels: Moonstone in //The Song of the Lark//, Haverford in //Lucy Gayheart//, etc. The site has a number of photographs of buildings and a map of the town. Certain buildings, street names, and places in Red Cloud are referenced by their proper names in her fiction. The address is: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/cather/index.htm