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The Songs of Praises for Pioneering Women 　　Abstract. The paper is to analyze the characters of firm pioneering women in depth from the works, combined with the history of and it explores that how the pioneering women grow up and improve themselves in the cruel environment. In addition, the great human spirit reflected in the works is of great significance to our. 　　Key words: spiritual value; immigrant; perseverance; real life 　　When we read Willa Cather’s novels we seem to come back to the American prairie in the 19th century and early 20th century. The hardworking women in the vast grassland let us admire deeply, and furthermore their spirit of struggle and perseverance and enthusiasm for life are more impressive to people. 　　Willa Cather, a famous American female writer in the 20th century moved to Nebraska prairie in South America with his family when she was a child. In the barren land the immigrants from Eastern Europe struggle against harsh natural environment with their hope for future. Cather was greatly touched by their firm and indomitable spirit. In Cather’s writing career, the most excellent works are the novels on the basis of background of frontier life. This paper will focus on the analysis of strong simple female images and their pioneering spirit reflected in the novels Oh! Pioneers!and My Antonia. 　　1. Pioneering Women’s Personal Charm 　　My Antonia lays the Willa Cather an important status in the history of American literature. The heroine, Antonia, a Bohemian girl moves to Nebraska prairie with her parents and begin hard pioneering life. The whole family lives in a cave on cliffs working day and night. They are often in rags and have little food to eat, especially in cold winter, the life is more difficult. There are some rotten potatoes in the buckets and a small pile of flour which can not be enough food for the family. In such difficult situation Antonia can still keeps an optimistic attitude towards life, and she never complains ma