Series: Bison Classic Editions

High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it or continue to be called No Name. No Name has his vision, a glowing white mare...

Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American writers. Cather called My Antonia "the best thing I've done." For Oliver Wendell Holmes, My Antonia had "unfailing charm, perhaps not to be defined; a beautiful tenderness, a vivifying imagination that transforms but does not distort...

Willa Cather said that O Pioneers! was her first authentic novel, the first time I walked off on my own feeteverything before was half real and half an imitation of writers whom I admired. Cather's novel of life on the Nebraska frontier established her reputation as a writer of great note and marked a significant turning point in her artistic...