the subject of willie cather's work is known to us.he daughter of red cloud, nebraska, to give a voice to the people she knew. the pioneers of the american frontier. her characters and settings were written with such depth and emotion. they still captivate readers to this day. as the nobel prize-winning writer sinclair lewis later said, the united states knows nebraska because of willa cather's books. and today, congress will always know her because of this statue as well. that is a legacy worth celebrating, one that reminds us that america is a nation of pioneers. in her novels and short stories, cather portrayed a band of pioneers on the nebraska plains who took responsibility for their lives in their own futures. she wrote in one of her novels, there was nothing but land, not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. cather knew that pioneers seized these materials and they built on it. pioneers have a vision of a better life beyond the immediate world are they currently live. pioneers are risktakers who ha