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O Pioneers! By: Willa Cather O Pioneer!, is a story about a strong woman’s life out on the land in early America. The book takes you through all the many hardships and wonders of her life. The book helps you to see the adversity of being a strong woman of that time. The book starts off with the heroine Alexandra with her father talking to his family on his death bed. Telling the boys that Alexandra is going to be the one in control of the family farmland. That everyone is suppose to respect that. With this great responsibility she took pride in it and wanted to make he father proud and brothers world a better place. She had a vision that her brothers couldn’t not grasp or see. They never really understood her and her love of the land. In the end that was all the true real honest love that she had. She had never married. When the time came that she wanted to marry at an age of forty her brothers tried to talk her out of it. Telling her that it would be ridiculous for to marry at such an age. That she would be making a fool of herself, and that Carl was only after their land