Tales of Town & Country

These seven stories by Willa Cather edited by Patricia T. OConner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press are published here under the title Tales of Town & Country. All but one first appeared in periodicals.A Death in the Desert originally appeared in Scribners Magazine January 1903.The Bohemian Girl was first published McClures Magazine August 1912.A Gold Slipper originally appeared in Harpers Monthly Magazine January 1917.On the Divide was first printed in Overland Monthly January 1896.Flavia and Her Artists originally appeared in a collection of Cathers stories The Troll Garden published in March 1905 by McClure Phillips & Co.The Bookkeepers Wife first appeared in The Century llustrated Monthly Magazine May 1916.Her Boss was first published in October 1919 in both the American and the British editions of the magazine Smart Set. The version included here is from the American edition.