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en-wikipedia-org-2962		Willa Cather - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	9852	1356	75	The farmland appealed to Charles' father, and the family wished to escape the tuberculosis outbreaks that were rampant in Virginia.[9] Willa's father tried his hand at farming for eighteen months; then he moved the family into the town of Red Cloud, where he opened a real estate and insurance business, and the children attended school for the first time.[3]:43 Some of the earliest work produced by Cather was first published in the Red Cloud Chief, the city's local paper.[10] Cather's time in Nebraska, still considered a frontier state, was a formative experience for her: She was moved by the dramatic environment and weather, the vastness of the prairie, and the various cultures of the immigrant[11] and Native American families in the area.[12][13][14] Mary Cather had six more children after Willa: Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie.[15]:5–7 Cather was closer to her brothers than to her sisters whom, according to biographer Hermione Lee, she "seems not to have liked very much."[16]:36 Cather read widely, having made friends with a Jewish couple, the Weiners, who offered her free access to their extensive library.[17] She made house calls with the local physician and decided to become a doctor.[18]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2962.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2962.txt