Basic search
Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in Cather's journalism. Currently, the search engine is not searching the annotations. However, the search does locate regularized names, titles, and spellings that are invisible on the screen but are contained in the encoding. For example, if you search for "Morris," one of your results will be the December 3, 1893, article, "One Way of Putting It," even though Morris isn't mentioned by name. The search is matching on "passionate tones of the great actress," which is identified by editors as a reference to Clara Morris. Typically, if you get a search result through an editor-supplied identification, the annotations will provide sufficient explanation. In the majority of cases, these identifications will be names and titles.

In the case of typographical errors, the search engine will provide accurate results, but the search term will not be highlighted when you click on the result. For example, if you search for "villain" you will get a match on the January 10, 1894, article, "Amusements." Upon reading that article, you will find the source of your match in the incorrectly-spelled "villian."

Wildcard search
Using a wildcard (*) will increase the odds of finding the results you are seeking. For example: great*. The search results will display every instance of great, greater, greatest, etc. More than one wildcard may be used. For example: *passion*. This search will return passion, passionate, impassioned, passions, etc.

Capitalization
Searches are not case sensitive. For example: will* returns the same results as Will*.

Phrase search
Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: when he dies it is generally from too much pastry.