THE ENCHANTED BLUFF by WILLA CATHER

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather is a wistful tale narrated by one of 5 Midwestern boys who , as friends, camped out by a river in their high school days and talked about a mysterious mesa that one of the boys had heard of. The narrator recalls the night under the stars and then explains what happened to each of the boys in later life and whether or not their dreams of exploring that bluff were ever fulfilled. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY! Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork Catch RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 Be Sure to Catch Our Shows at Player.fm- An easy to use, great podcast catcher!! Radio Days is now here! Enjoy our new show "Radio Days" at Player.fm, here: https://player.fm/series/radio-days. Catch 1001 STORIES FOR THE ROAD AT PLAYER.FM https://player.fm/series/1001-stories-for-the-road-2354662 Catch 1001 HEROES at Player.fm here: https://player.fm/series/series-2354660 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES here at Player.fm: https://player.fm/series/series-2354655 If You Are Currently Using Our 1001 Stories Podcast Network APP- that is going away. The individual shows are still and will be always available on other apps. Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Website For 1001 Heroes is still www.1001storiespodcast.com (we redirected that one to www.1001storiesnetwork.com) Website For 1001 Classic Short Stories is still www.1001classicshortstories.com ( we redirected that as well) Website for 1001 Stories For The Road is still www.1001storiesfortheroad (we redirected that one, too) Website for 1001 Radio Days is www.1001radiodays.com Links: Our Twitter: @1001podcast Our Facebook: www.Facebook.com/1001Heroes Our Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. Today a story from one of my
0:36.0	favorite female authors will a catheter this story the enchanted bluff has a
0:41.2	bittersweet ending.
0:42.8	The story portrays a group of high school friends heading up for one last camping trip
0:46.9	before they have to return to school.
0:49.7	At the center of this story is the legend of the Lost Tribe of the fascinated by the legend since she was a child, but she had never visited the region.
1:04.0	Finally, in 1912, she stayed in the southwest for several months,
1:08.0	visited the Injantameza, and she was, in a word, enchanted.
1:13.0	She returned again and again for many years,
1:16.0	and she reused the Legend of the Lost Tribe
1:18.0	in two of her novels,
1:19.0	once in the Tom Outland story section of the Professor's house House, and again in death came for the Archbishop.
1:26.5	One small note, the divide she mentions is the table land in southern Nebraska between the
1:30.9	Republican and Little Blue Rivers.
1:34.0	And now the enchanted bluff by Willicather.
1:38.3	We had our swim before sundown, and while we were cooking our supper, the oblique rays of light made a dazzling glare on the white sand about us.
1:46.0	The translucent red ball itself sank behind the brown stretches of cornfield as we sat down to eat
1:51.8	and the warm layer of air that had rested over the water and our clean
1:55.4	sandbar grew fresher and smelled of the rank ironweed and sunflowers growing on the flatter
2:00.4	shore. The river was brown and sluggish, like any other of the half dozen streams that
2:05.6	water the Nebraska cornlands. On one shore was an irregular line of bald
2:10.4	clay bluffs where a few scrub oaks with thick trunks and flat twisted tops
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