 In 1916, Cather made a trip to the Pavelka farm that may have been the inspiration for the final chapters of the novel, in which Jim Burden returns to Nebraska to visit Antonia and her family.Annie Pavelka died in 1955, but her family members remain actively engaged in preserving her memory.Published in 1918, "My Antonia" was the third novel in Cather's "Prairie Trilogy."