Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had never known before how much the country meant to her. Even her talk with the boys had not taken away the feeling that had overwhelmed her when she drove back to the Divide that afternoon. That night she had a new consciousness of the country, felt almost a new relation to it. Written in the kind of spare, lyric prose that would come to define her work, the story explores themes of destiny, chance, love, and perseverance. One of her earliest full-length works, it was published in 1913. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security. O Pioneers by Willa Cather is one of this esteemed American author’s most iconic novels. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance, and of their ordered march. “Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air.
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