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Excerpt from The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers of the Great Central Route From the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, 1822-1831 The student of American History in our schools is given an opportunity to become well acquainted with the early explorations of the Great North west and the Great Southwest, he is taught little or noth...

Excerpt from A Bundle of Myrrh As the Storm whipped by the lightning and strong with the despair of giants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfectio...

Excerpt from The Song of Three Friends The following narrative, though complete in itself, is designed to be the first piece in a cycle of poems dealing with the fur trade period of the trans-missouri region. The Song of Hugh Glass, which was published in the fall of 1915, is the second in the series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...

Excerpt from The Song of Hugh GlassIF the average student of Western American History in our schools were asked to recall those names which loom large for him during the four decades from the purchase of the Louisiana Territory to the coming of the settlers, he would doubtless think of Lewis and Clark, Lieutenant Pike, Major Long, and Genera Frémont, with perhaps one or two others. That is to say, the average student of Western History is fami...

Excerpt from The Quest I am a musician for the first time! I have found an instrument to play upon! She is my Violin she is my harp! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whi...

Excerpt from The Poet's Pack About three hundred reached the editor-in-chief, who made further eliminations and called for additional contributions from a number of the surviving contributors, with the result that a volume of one hundred poems by forty-five poets was made. The material submitted ranged in form from free verse to the sonnet, from the quatrain to the ballade, and from the Sapphic stanza to the gazel. About the Publisher Forgo...

Excerpt from The Lonesome Trail The Old Cry O Mourner in the silence of the hills, 0 Thing of ancient griefs, art thou a wolf? I heard a cry that shook me - was it thine? Low in the mystic purple of the west The weird moon hangs, a tarnished silver slug: Vast, vast the hollow empty night curves down, Stabbed with the glass-like glinting of the stars, And, save when that wild cry grows up anon, No sound but this dull murmur of the hush -...

An account of a youthful adventure written during the winter of 1908

Death-defying and vulnerable fur traders and Indians, demi-devils and almost-angels, come to life in these early stories by John G. Neihardt. Featured in popular magazines between 1905 and 1908, they are collected in The Ancient Memory and reprinted for the first time in nearly a century.These nine stories, including "Feather for Feather, " "A Political Coup at Little Omaha, " "The Brutal Fact, " "The Epic-Minded Scot, " "The Discarded Fetish,...

The first volume in this two-volume edition of "A Cycle of the West" includes "The Song of Three Friends "(1919), which received the National Prize of the Poetry Society of America, "The Song of Jed Smith" (1941). The first two songs, in the poet's words, "deal with the ascent of the river and characteristic adventures of Ashley-Henry men in the country of the upper Missouri and the Yellowstone. "The Song of Jed Smith" follows the first band o...

Covering the years 1901-1908, the author weaves a mosaic of personal fulfillment, joy and sorrow, reflecting on the successes and failures he experienced during his "mature" years. He shares a mingling of romantic anecdotes alive with names and faces he sought out or fought for along the way.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

The Twilight of the Sioux is essential reading for understanding the unforgettable world and majestic sweep of events and people in Black Elk Speaks. The magnificence and tragedy of the Old West is here, as told by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt: the courage of settlers in the American West, the valiant resistance by the Native peoples who called it home. In these pages, the legendary warriors Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull...

This is the exciting story of the fur traders and trappers who explored and opened up the American West in the first decades of the nineteenth century. As told by the acclaimed poet and writer John G. Neihardt, the era of the mountain men unfolds through the legendary exploits of Jedediah Smith, who ascended the Missouri River in 1822 and was killed by Comanche Indians nine years later. As Neihardt tells so well, Smith's accomplishments were m...

The Song of Three Friends is a resounding tribute to the intrepid explorers and mountain men who braved the western wilderness in the first decades of the nineteenth century. How was the rugged American West braved and then settled? America's foremost epic poet John G. Neihardt tells of the ordeal of the last frontier and how a stalwart character could prove to be more than a match for it. Luminous and rousing, The Song of Three Friends is als...

1922. With notes by Julius T. House. The Song of Hugh Glass tells tales in verse of the wandering bands of trappers and traders who explored the wilderness in search of furs from the British boundary to Mexico and from the Missouri to the Pacific. Contents: Graybeard and Goldhair, The Awakening, The Crawl, The Return of the Ghost, and Jamie.

This first published collection of poems by John G. Neihardt earned him extravagant praise from critics and the attention of literary circles in New York. Daring in its embrace of sensuality, rapid-fire emotion, and free verse, the thirty-one poems in A Bundle of Myrrh marked the very public beginning of the career of America's great epic poet. This collection fell into the hands of Mona Martinsen, a student of the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Take...

The Quest was a landmark publication in modern American poetry, bringing together those lyrical poems most near and dear to their creator, John G. Neihardt. Featured are the poet's favorite selections from his celebrated collections A Bundle of Myrrh, Man-Song, and The Stranger at the Gates. The poems, unfailingly insightful and contemplative, run the gamut of the epic poet's physical and metaphysical experiences, from the delights of the fles...

A celebration of love, an ode to virility--Man-Song reveals the passions and longings of the young poet John G. Neihardt. These twenty-seven erotic poems, published just after he had married the sculptor Mona Martinsen, testify to the power of attraction between men and women and the strong bonds forged by male friends and comrades in adversity and triumph. These enduring themes, girding his masterpieces to come, are vividly on display here as...