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The 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. Taken with the passionate young poet from Nebraska, Martinsen began corresponding with Neihardt and later married him.

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Complete edition, includes all five songs from The Mountain Men and The Twilight of the Sioux. The Cycle of the West is a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the "American Homer," A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, and The Song of the Messiah. This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience.

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The first volume of John G. Neihardt's autobiography covering the years from 1881-1901.

Introduction by Dick Cavett

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The first volume of John G. Neihardt's autobiography covering the years from 1881-1901.

Introduction by Dick Cavett

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The life and vision of an Oglala Holy Man as related to John Neihardt, is widely hailed as a religious classic, one of the best spiritual books of the modern era. This inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and the tragic history of his Sioux people during the epic closing decades of the Old West. In 1930, the aging Black Elk met a kindred spirit, the famed poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The Lakota elder chose Neihardt to share his visions and life with the world.

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Shimmering tales of American Indian lives and worlds, exciting accounts of the long-lost western frontier; these seventeen short stories are among the best ever penned by the acclaimed author of Black Elk Speaks. Dazzling, true to the subject, and highly readable, these tales of the Omaha Nation and of the Nebraska frontier experience show a master storyteller at the height of his craft.

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The bitter darkness of frontier life pervades John G. Neihardt's fascinating second novel, set during the Black Hills gold rush. A dashing gentleman gambler named Louis Devlin does his best to tempt and corrupt two earnest, good men-Samuel Drake, who has squandered his fortune in a Deadwood card game and Punkins, a callow farm boy who yearns to be rich. A lust for wealth, as Neihardt warns in many of his greatest works, has dire consequences. Set within the legendary gold rush town of Deadwood, these struggling souls and others are on a head-on collision course with their fate. Philosophical and rich in detail, the novel authentically captures the eagerness, cynicism, and desperation of gold rush Deadwood at its lowest and highest.

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The bitter darkness of frontier life pervades John G. Neihardt's fascinating second novel, set during the Black Hills gold rush. A dashing gentleman gambler named Louis Devlin does his best to tempt and corrupt two earnest, good men-Samuel Drake, who has squandered his fortune in a Deadwood card game and Punkins, a callow farm boy who yearns to be rich. A lust for wealth, as Neihardt warns in many of his greatest works, has dire consequences. Set within the legendary gold rush town of Deadwood, these struggling souls and others are on a head-on collision course with their fate. Philosophical and rich in detail, the novel authentically captures the eagerness, cynicism, and desperation of gold rush Deadwood at its lowest and highest.

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A collection of John G. Neihardt's poetic works that brings together lyric poetry that appeared originally in three separate volumes: A Bundle of Myrrh, Man-Song, and The Stranger at the Gate. Also included are selections from A Vision of Woman, The Poet's Town and two dramatic poems formerly published together under the title Two Mothers.

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A celebration of love, an ode to virility-Man-Song reveals the passions and longings of the young poet John G. Neihardt. The twenty-seven epic 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. A rare and fascinating glimpse of the highly personal desires and dreams of America's great epic poet.

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A celebration of love, an ode to virility-Man-Song reveals the passions and longings of the young poet John G. Neihardt. The twenty-seven epic 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. A rare and fascinating glimpse of the highly personal desires and dreams of America's great epic poet.

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Volume II of John G. Neihardt's autobiography is a continuation of All is But a Beginning and offers a final glimpse into his fascinating life covering the years 1901-1908.

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John G. Neihardt brings to life death-defying and vulnerable fur traders and Indians, demi-devils and almost-angels in these nine short stories about the Nebraska frontier experience and the Omaha Nation. These stories were featured in popular magazines between 1905 and 1908.

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John G. Neihardt's first novel written prior to WWI tells the story of Mr. Waters, a one-eyed, one-legged printer, habitual self-loather, and consummate drinker who finds himself in Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska Territory, in the 1860's. While working for the town newspaper, Waters' isolation is shattered by two women: a motherly widow and a beautiful Island Girl, whose dark fate in the rough world of the American West ultimately changes Waters' life.

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John G. Neihardt's first novel written prior to WWI tells the story of Mr. Waters, a one-eyed, one-legged printer, habitual self-loather, and consummate drinker who finds himself in Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska Territory, in the 1860's. While working for the town newspaper, Waters' isolation is shattered by two women: a motherly widow and a beautiful Island Girl, whose dark fate in the rough world of the American West ultimately changes Waters' life.

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John G. Neihardt's first published long poem, springs forth from Neihardt's fascination with Hindu mysticism and myth, the epic poem relates the vision of Devanaguy, who became the mother of Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu. This mystical poem reveals the youthful exuberance of Neihardt as well as the brilliant visionary writer to come, concerned with the interrelationship of the divine and daily life.

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John G. Neihardt's first published long poem, springs forth from Neihardt's fascination with Hindu mysticism and myth, the epic poem relates the vision of Devanaguy, who became the mother of Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu. This mystical poem reveals the youthful exuberance of Neihardt as well as the brilliant visionary writer to come, concerned with the interrelationship of the divine and daily life.

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A collection of short stories about the people of the Omaha Nation that appeared in popular magazines between 1901 and 1907; all nine stories are influenced by Neihardt's experience among Omaha Indians and shaped by the power of his imagination.

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Includes nearly forty selections representing every phase of Neihardt's art, from the passionate poetry of his youth to the masterworks of his maturity to the reflections of his old age. Neihardt wrote in nearly every major genre including fiction, lyric and epic poetry, biography, autobiography, travelogue, literary criticism, and essay form. This sampler of Neihardt's poetry and prose resurrects the outlines of a long and varied literary career.

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The Mountain Men celebrates the brave men and women who explored, trapped, and traded across the Old West during the early decades of the nineteenth century. From the Missouri River to the Great Salt Lake, the Yellowstone River to Spanish California, their moving and inspiring stories are deftly told by the brilliant epic poet, John G. Neihardt. It was the age of individualism, a time when a person's own character and fortitude, more than the collective, ensured survival and success. Includes The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, and The Song of Jed Smith.

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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 flesh to the joys of parenthood. Also included are a number of previously uncollected poems, illuminating different facets of the complex man that was John G. Neihardt.

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In 1908, the brilliant poet and writer, John G. Neihardt, traveled by canoe down the then-untamed Missouri River for fifty-six days. His account showcases the long ago, fascinating world through which the mighty Missouri passed. The River and I is at once a classic adventure tale, an enduring homage to the Old West, and a tale of an abiding love for a relentless river and those affected by it.

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The wonderfully realized poem that launched the epic A Cycle of the West; The Song of Hugh Glass celebrates the American fur trade west of the Mississippi in the early nineteenth century. The lives and adventures of the early fur traders and trappers who crossed the Missouri River are told with unforgettable vigor and magnificence by the brilliant epic poet John G. Neihardt. As he tells it, this was an age of individualism in our national historical epic, a time of the struggles and triumphs of solitary men more that communities. The Song of Hugh Glass is one of the cornerstones of Neihardt's masterpiece, A Cycle of the West.

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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. The Song of Three Friends is also an essential tale in Neihardt's epic masterpiece, A Cycle of the West.

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This is an 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, the first white man to cross the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin from west to east; and the first to travel by land to California and northward to the Columbia River. The Splendid Wayfaring also reveals the triumphs and challenges of other fur traders, many in the employ of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry.

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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 the pages, the legendary warriors Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull ride forth again; the ghost dance is performed once more; the 7th Calvary is annihilated at the Little Bighorn only to rise again and participate in a horrific massacre at Wounded Knee. This is the second volume in Neihardt's acclaimed A Cycle of the West, containing The Song of the Indian Wars and The Song of the Messiah.

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The fictional autobiography of Eagle Voice, a Lakota living from the 1860's to the 1890's. When the Tree Flowered is John Neihardt's mature and reflective interpretation of the old Sioux way of life. Through Neihardt's writings, Black Elk, Eagle Elk, and other old men who were of that last generation of Sioux to have participated in the old buffalo-hunting life and disorienting period of strife with the U.S. army found a literary voice.

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This volume brings together fourteen lifelong admirers of John G. Neihardt, who each contribute a portrait or an appreciation of this American original. This collection of essays in memory of John Neihardt is written by such noted authors as Dee Brown, N. Scott Momaday, Alvin M. Joseph, Bobby Bridger, Lucile F. Aly and edited by Vine DeLoria, Jr.

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In 1931 John Neihardt traveled to Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to interview Lakota elders who had witnessed the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre. He met Black Elk, and their two weeks of intense talks became Black Elk Speaks; accompanying him to help observe and take notes were his two daughters, Enid and Hilda. Black Elk & Flaming Rainbow is Hilda Neihardt's memories of those interviews. She celebrates the days and nights of storytelling, camping, feasting and horseback riding with the fresh eyes of a bright fourteen year old. The volume includes never-before-published photographs and answers many questions about the collaboration between the Lakota holy man and her father, called Peta Wigamou-Gke, or Flaming Rainbow.

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The story and teachings of Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950), first recorded by John G. Neihardt in Black Elk Speaks, have played a critical role in shaping the way in which Native Americans and others view the past, present, and future of Native America. These conversations with the descendents of Black Elk offer an intimate look at life on the Pine Ridge Reservation and fresh perspectives on the religious, economic, and political opportunities and challenges facing the Lakota people today. In addition to revealing more about Black Elk the healer, the family also provides glimpses of Black Elk as a family man, teacher, and influential ancestor.

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The daughter of an international financier, Mona Martinsen, was studying sculpture in Paris with the renowned Auguste Rodin. John G. Neihardt, the son of an American pioneer family on the Great Plains, was a brilliant, but impoverished poet and writer. While studying in Paris, Mona was captivated by a little book of poems, A Bundle of Myrrh, a gift from her mother. Mona wrote to the young poet, and through a series of letters between the poet in Bancroft, Nebraska, and the sculptor in Paris, France, they discovered much in common. Drawing on correspondence, interviews, archival research, and her own memories, Hilda Martinsen Neihardt tells the story of how her parents met, fell in love, raised a family and grew old together.

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John Neihardt's life is dramatically portrayed by authors Brown and Leech, as they cover his early years in Nebraska and his travels down the Missouri River. They tell of his unusual romance and marriage to a New York sculptor and of his work with the plains Indians. Neihardt's life story will inspire young readers to look within themselves for strength. It will also show them that one's most challenging dreams can become reality.

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A study of the classic spiritual text, Black Elk Speaks, that makes a convincing case that Neihardt quite consciously attempted to use his literary craftsmanship to provide the reader with direct and immediate access to the teachings of the Oglala elder, Black Elk. Using Neihardt's original handwritten notes and early manuscript drafts, Holloway demonstrates the poet's careful and deliberate re-creation of Black Elk's spiritual world in order to induce a transcendent experience in the reader.

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An unparalleled glimpse into the social and literary thought of John G. Neihardt, one of America's most celebrated poets and authors. Featured in these pages are Neihardt's views of such literary giants as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, H.G. Wells, e.e. Cummings, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Eugene O'Neill, and Upton Sinclair. In their entirety, these essays showcase little known essays and reviews, which deepen and round out our appreciation for the accomplishments of Neihardt by revealing his no-nonsense opinions about noted literary figures and trends, events, and social issues of his day.

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In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John G. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual representative of the earth and of mankind. Raymond J. DeMallie makes available for the first time the transcripts from Neihardt's interviews with Black Elk in 1931 and 1944, which formed the basis for the two books. His introduction offers new insights into the life of Black Elk.

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A selection of John G. Neihardt's finest poetry, recited by Hilda Neihardt and accompanied on classical guitar by her son Robin Neihardt.

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50 minutes of John G. Neihardt reading excerpts from several of his major works including "The Death of Crazy Horse," from Song of the Indian Wars, "Black Elk's Prayer," from When the Tree Flowered, "April Theology," and "Easter."

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A scholarly publication handsomely printed on heavy card stock, containing hard copy of presentations from the John G. Neihardt annual Spring Conferences. Volumes 1-10: $3.50 each.

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A scholarly publication handsomely printed on heavy card stock, containing hard copy of presentations from the John G. Neihardt annual Spring Conferences. Volume 11: $5.00 each.

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