 So it was a bustling market town for an agricultural area, but it was also still a small town. And you get a fair sense of that in the novel, of it as a small town where everybody knows everyone's business and where Jim Burden feels quite bored once his family moves into town. He moves in with his grandparents. Now, some of the main characters are based on people that Willa Cather knew. Was Jim Burden based on somebody she knew?