My ÁntoniaTravel to the Old West with Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. Willa Cathers novels brought the life of American settlers on the Great Plains to the forefront of the nations consciousness during a time when the lands west of the Mississippi were undergoing rapid transformation. My ntonia, considered by many scholars to be her first masterpiece, tells the story of a young orphan, Jim Burden, who is sent from Virginia to Nebraska, where he grows up