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, " and "The Ancient Memory, " foreshadow much of Neihardt's la work. Neihardt's daughter, Hilda, provides details about the writing of the stories in the foreword.