One of OursAlthough the land on which the Nebraska farm boy Claude Wheeler lives is settled, he himself has inherited the pioneer spirit of adventure, the frontiersman's purpose, and the settler's sense of idealism. In One of Ours, Willa Cather explores the dissonance between Claudes attitudes and his physical reality and studies how this conflict affects him. Drawing on her own familys experience of the war through her cousin G. P. Cather, who fought in World