Central to the Scandinavian settlement area, St. Stephenie Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the neighboring cemetery are known locally as the Dane Church. During Cather's time in the area, the church hired a Czech immigrant named Kamel Ondrak to paint an altarpiece, "Christ in the Garden." When Willa Cather took her father to see it, Charles Cather observed that the halo looked like a ring of cheese. Cather was furious. In 1927, a tornado destroyed the little church, and when Ondrak heard of the damage, he reportedly cried, "My Yesus! My Yesus! Blown all to hell!"

“But for the piece of rusty stovepipe sticking up through the sod, you could have walked over the roof of Ivar’s dwelling without dreaming that you were near a human habitation. Ivar had lived for three years in the clay bank, without defiling the face of nature any more than the coyote that had lived there before him had done.” —O Pioneers!

This road leads to the Divide. This may have been the one Alexandra traveled in O Pioneers! As you travel this road, you will notice the slow, steady climb in elevation. The Divide marks the high middle ground between the Republican River and the Little Blue River, near where Cather’s family originally homesteaded.

The Miner Ranch stands near Indian Creek; the Cather and Miner children sometimes played here. On the banks of Indian Creek, Silas Garber and other early settlers decided on the name Red Cloud for their town.

The island appears in a number of Cather stories. In Lucy Gayheart winter prevails on the island, with black willows, twisted scrub oaks, and the bronze light of a winter sunset. In "The Enchanted Bluff," it is summertime with its yellow-green willows, new sand, and skeletons of turtles and fish. The island marks both the beginning and the fulfillment of a dream in "The Treasure of the Far Island."

 Marking the corner of this early Red Cloud Cemetery is this collection of graves belonging to the Murphy family. This land was part of the Miner Ranch and was given by J. L. Miner, prototype for Christian Harling in My Ántonia, to be the Catholic Cemetery. Around 1904, most of the graves were moved to the Red Cloud Cemetery with the consent of descendents; the Murphy graves remain. James Murphy was the prototype for My Ántonia's Larry Donovan. He died of tuberculosis in 1901. On his tombstone is the inscription, "Gone but not forgotten."

Old Mill Dam was the site of the mill in One of Ours. The mill dam was destroyed in the Republican River flood of 1935.