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fascinating--their stories, their vitality, their dignity. The land which at first seemed flat and monotonous proved to furnish endless variations on the theme of fertility. “No matter how far she wandered across the globe, she wasalways drawn back to the Nebraska prairies and those best days of her youth which were the first to flee.” (Internet #3)

The West is also a particularly difficult target for the kind of ``country life'' Cather seeks to describe. The first description we get of the landscape depicts it as alive, but with none of the human activity of, say, urban life or even developed rural life.

Perhaps the glide of long railway travel was still with me, for more than anything else I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath the herds of wild buffalo were galloping, galloping ... . (13)

If the Western landscape were simply dead ...

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