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Where did Willa and her family move when she was nine?

  • Webster County, Nebraska

  • North Dakota

  • Iowa

  • Indiana

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Willa Cather's family moved to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. They settled in Red Cloud, a small town of about 1,000 people. Cather spent the rest of her childhood in Red Cloud and the surrounding area. The town and the surrounding countryside had a profound impact on her writing, and she often drew on her experiences there in her novels and short stories.
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