John G. Neihardt (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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John G. Neihardt’s range is extensive. During a seventy-five-year literary career, he wrote at least 3,027 poems, plays, novels, stories, essays, articles, reviews, and histories, as well as a two-volume autobiography. Most of Neihardt’s prose fiction was written before 1912. His short stories about fur trappers and Native Americans gathered in The Lonesome Trail (1907) and Indian Tales and Others (1926) are often excellent. His early novels are less successful, but Black Elk Speaks (1932) and his last novel, When the Tree...
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