The Willa Cather Archive
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A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather


Garber, Silas  (1833–1905) Captain of Company D, the 27th Iowa Infantry, during the Civil War; homesteaded in Nebraska in 1870 and in 1871 founded the town of Red Cloud; governor of Nebraska, 1874–78; impoverished by the failure of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank in Red Cloud in 1893. The model for Captain Forrester in A Lost Lady.