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Before 'Black Elk Speaks, ' before his epic poem 'A Cycle of the West, ' John G. Neihardt wrote many short stories that found favor with readers and critics. Among his best were the seventeen collected in 'Indian Tales and Others' in 1926 and now available for the first time in paperback.
In 1908 John Neihardt (1881-1973) and two companions traveled the Missouri River in a twenty-foot canoe, beginning at the headwaters in Montana and ending up at Sioux City, Iowa. The River and I describes their adventures on that wild waterway before it was dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers and points out storied sites along the shore. In sum, Neihardt does for the Missouri what Twain did for the Mississippi.
The second volume of "A Cycle of the West", dealing with the tragic defeat of the Plains Indians, includes "The Song of the Indian Wars" (1925) and "The Song of the Messiah" (1935). The former tells of "the period of migration and the last great fight for the bison pastures between the invading white race and the Sioux, the Cheyenne, and the Arapahoe, " while the latter concerns "the conquered people and the worldly end of the last great dream...
With the publication of "The Splendid Wayfaring" in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River in the first fur-trading expedition of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry, and ends in 1831, when he was killed by Comanche Indians on the Cimarron River. In the intervening years Smith became the ...
In 1908 John Neihardt (1881-1973) and two companions traveled the Missouri River--about two thousand miles--in a twenty-foot canoe. Originally published in "Outing Magazine" as a series of articles, "The River and I" describes their adventures on that wild waterway before it was dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers and points out storied sites along the shore. The result transcends journalism, Neihardt does for the Missouri what Twain did for...
The Dawn Builder, " originally published in 1910, was John G. Neihardt's first novel. At the center of it is a one-eyed, peg-legged man named Waters. He comes to Fort Calhoun, Nebraska Territory, in 1862 and drinks himself into a hole when he isn't setting type on the town newspaper. Because his thirst is metaphysical as well, he only temporarily loses sight of the possibility of happiness, of building his own dawn. Like all memorable characte...
How important were Sioux authors such as Charles Eastman in the opinion of the writer responsible for Black Elk Speaks? What will be the legacy of modern poetry according to the poet behind The Cycle of the West? Knowledge and Opinion offers an unparalleled glimpse into the social and literary thought of John G. Neihardt (1881-1973), one of America's most celebrated poets and authors. A wealth of little-known essays and reviews deepen and roun...
Contains nine stories that include "A Prairie Borgia, " "The End of the Dream, " 'The Triumph of Seha, " "The Smile of God", "When the Snows Drift, " "The Beating of the War Drums, " "The Fading of Shadow Flower, " "The Singing of the Frogs, " and "The Spirit of Crow Butte.
John Neihardt, celebrated for his cycle of epic poems about the American West and for Black Elk Speaks, was in his nineties when he wrote this engaging book about growing up in the Midwest. "All Is But a Beginning" describes the people and events instrumental in shaping his later distinguished career as a poet, historian, and authority on Indians.
Originally published just months after his marriage to Mona Martinsen, the poems collected in Man-Song celebrate passionate love and offer many personal glimpses of the young John Neihardt. Unashamedly erotic, they reveal his capacity for love at age twenty-eight. Poems like A Vision of Woman and Women-Wine show the lover's prejudices and greedy need for caresses and strong embraces. Those like To Volney Streamer are addressed to male friends ...
The creative energy that would in time produce A Cycle of the West and Black Elk Speaks is apparent in his first book, The Divine Enchantment, published in 1990 when he was nineteen years old. It can be viewed as an early version of the philosophy of spiritual awareness that Neihardt articulated twenty-five years later in Poetic Values. They are reprinted together for the first time in this Landmark Edition.A narrative poem bursting with youth...
Coming four years after The Dawn Builder (1910), John G. Neihardt's second novel portrays the lives of Black Hills miners and of those who preyed on them. Life's Lure takes up a theme that runs throughout Neihardt's work: the consequences of an inordinate desire for wealth.The protagonists come in sets of three. On one hand there are Samuel Drake, a hapless thirty-year-old who has just squandered his inheritance in a Deadwood card game, his fi...
Internationally known for BLACK ELK SPEAKS and A CYCLE OF THE WEST, John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) wrote in almost all major genres. THE GIVING EARTH includes nearly 40 selections representing every phase of Neihardt's art, from the passionate poetry of his youth to the masterworks of his maturity to the lapidary reflections of his old age. His daughter Hilda Neihardt provides personal details in her Introduction. Photos.
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Two Mothers was written by John G. Neihardt in 1921. This is a 91 page book, containing 9615 words and 4 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title.
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