Willa Cather Review | 66.3 | Winter 2025

The Willa Cather Review is a scholarly journal published three times each year by the National Willa Cather Center. A subscription is a benefit of membership.

Table of Contents

• Letters from the Executive Director and the President
• Visiting the Professor's Houses • Sarah Clere 
• Deep State • Joseph C. Murphy
• "The Superior Quality of His Taste in Art • Jess Masters
• One More House for the St. Peters • John H. Flannigan
• On the Divide: The Cradle of Plains Archeology • Sallie Ketcham
• Caring and Keeping Mother Eve's Memory • Jeannette Schollaert
• When Choosing Your Next Book • Kelsey Squire
• America, You've Got It Better: Germany and the Mirror of Globalized Art in The Professor's House • Elizabeth Wells
• Color Analysis in The Professor's House: Primary, Pure, and Primitive • Kim Vanderlaan
• Tom Outland | Barry Lopez • Julie Olin-Ammentorp
• Preservationism in The Professor's House: Richard Millington
• Augusta • Ann Romines
• From The Professor's House (1925) to Grounded in Clay (2022): Representing Ancenstral Pueblo Pottery • Lizbeth Strimple Fuisz
• Cather's Cowboy • Robert Thacker
• The Professor's House and the Value of the World • John Swift

For Young Readers

• Meet Tom Outland
• Children Living on the Mesa

On the Cover: Tom Outland and the Blue Mesa, as envisioned by illustrator Anne Merriman Peck. As Cather wrote in "On The Professor's House" (1938): "In my book I tried to make Professor St. Peter's House rather overcrowded and stuffy...Then I wanted to open the square window and let in the fresh air that blew off the Blue Mesa, and the fine disregard of trivialities which was in Tom Outland's face and his behaviour."