The Mountain Men (Volume 1 of A Cycle of the West) - Softcover

Neihardt, John G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803257333 ISBN 13: 9780803257337

Publisher: Bison Books, 1971

Synopsis

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 of Americans through South Pass to the Great Salt Lake, the first band of Americans to reach Spanish California by an overland trail." Regarded by many as Dr. Neihardt's masterwork, the cycle as a whole "celebrates the great mood of courage that was developed west of the Missouri River in the nineteenth-century."

About this title

About the Author:

Internationally known for Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt (1881-1973) was a noted author in several genres. His essays and literary criticism are collected in Knowledge and Opinion (Nebraska 2002).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0803257333
• ISBN 13: 9780803257337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 369