Abstract
If' Willa Cather's adopted Nebraskan prairies constitute the homesteads of her Western literature, the Southwest qualifies as her favorite travel destination. Cather returns to treasures hidden in the area's majestic mesas in three narratives of discovery: The Song of the Lark, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop.1 In considering the reasons why Willa Cather and so many other women writers and artists were attracted to the Southwest, critics have often noted the allure of the region's striking landscape.2 The canyons and crevices depicted in Cather's fiction have been called the most thoroughly elaborated female landscape, rich with erotic and maternal imagery (Moers 258).Also in the Southwest are stretches of open land that seem to have played a key role in drawing Cather to the area and inspiring her art, as Judith Fryer argues:
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