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4 unusual facts about The Affair at Grover Station


Grover, Colorado

Willa Cather's 1900 short story The Affair at Grover Station contains a description of Grover, as per, 'You know what Grover is, a red box of a station, section house barricaded by coal sheds and a little group of dwellings at the end of everything, with the desert running out on every side to the sky line.'.

The Affair at Grover Station

The next day, Rodgers went about the station and then up to Grover, Colorado.

The plotline was partly taken from an 1893 short story by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

The outer narrator meets with his old friend Rodgers by Sterling, Colorado, and asks about the murdered agent at Grover station.



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