My Ántonia (Willa Cather)

This post is part of Commonplace Classics , wherein I read the books we all know and sometimes love. The word "prairie" evokes powerful mental images, even for those whose relationship with the United States is entirely pop cultural. One pictures vast expanses of fertile grassland, teeming with elk and bison and the giant squirrels known as prairie dogs. Pioneers work the land: rugged, salt of the…