My Antonia

My Antonia tells the stories of an orphaned boy from Virginia Jim Burden and the elder daughter in a family of Bohemian immigrants Ántonia Shimerda who are each brought to be pioneers in Nebraska towards the end of the 19th century as children. Ántonia must work as a servant on the farms of her neighbors after her father commits suicide. She elopes with a railway conductor but returns home and eventually becomes the patient and strong wife of a Bohemian farmer Anton Cuzak the mother of a large family and a typical woman of the pioneer West.