The organization was founded in 1955[REF] in Red Cloud, the small town that appears frequently in her novels and stories under a variety of names [REF].
Cather, born in Virginia in 1873, moved with her family to rural Webster County, Nebraska, in 1883; in late 1884 the family resettled in the county seat of Red Cloud, where Cather lived until beginning her college studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1890 [REF].