Willa Cather was an American writer who was well known for her Prairy Trilogy, novels about frontier life on the Great Prairie. She was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her novel One of Ours, set during Word War I.
Two very shabby looking young men stood at the corner of Prairie avenue and Eightieth street, looking despondently at the carriages that whirled by. It was Christmas Eve, and the streets were full
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