Courage Episodes
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyways"
May 4, 2025
ON THE DIVIDE by WILLA CATHER
"On the Divide" is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It was first published in Overland Monthly in January 1896. Plot summary On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first...
April 27, 2025
DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT
DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day' Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Logan—the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans—established that May...
Oct. 6, 2024
BEYOND THE BAYOU by KATE CHOPIN
Kate Chopin wrote about life on the Louisiana Bayou after the Civil War, and she portrays the life of blacks on the plantation with tenderness and understanding. In this story a woman named LaFolle, who lives alone in a cabin far from the main home...