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The Professor's House
by Willa Cather
- LITERATURE
- 1990
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- 272 PAGES
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Cather's accomplished 1925 novel includes a story-within-a-story of explorer Tom Outland, a character modeled after Richard Wetherill, the rancher who brought the Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde (called Blue Mesa in the novel) to the world's attention. She writes: "I saw a little city of stone, asleep. It was as still as a sculpture…looking down into the canyon with the calmness of eternity…I knew at once that I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries."
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