O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by American author Willa Cather, written while she was living in New York. It was her second published novel. The title is a reference to a poem by Walt Whitman entitled "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" from Leaves of Grass (1855).
First edition
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating ..."
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Cather in 1936
Willa Cather Childhood Home, Red Cloud, Nebraska
Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Webster County, Nebraska
Willa Cather in the Mesa Verde wilds, c. 1915