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<Text id=CatMyAn>
<Author>Cather, Willa</Author>
<Title>My Antonia</Title>
<ct>Early Novels and Stories</ct>
<ed>Library of America</ed>
<pub>New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1987</pub>
<Date>1918</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>CatMyAn711</locdoc><milestone n=711>
<div0 n=Introduction>
<l><i>Optima dies . . . prima fugit</i> </l>
<l> VIRGIL </l>
<l>TO </l>
<l>CARRIE AND IRENE MINER </l>
<l><i>In memory of affections old and true</i> </l>
<p>Last summer I happened to be crossing the plains of
Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good
fortune to have for a traveling companionJames Quayle Burden
-- Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He and I
are old friends -- we grew up together in the same Nebraska
town -- and we had much to say to each other. While the
train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by
country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves
wilting in the sun, we sat in the obser . . .
