AKA John Gneisenau Neihardt

Born: 8-Jan-1881
Birthplace: Sharpsburg, IL
Died: 3-Nov-1973
Location of death: Columbia, MO
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Poet, Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Cycle of the West

    University: Nebraska Normal School, Wayne, NE
    Professor: University of Missouri, Columbia (1948-65)

Author of books:
The Divine Enchantment (1900)
The Lonesome Trail (1907, short stories)
A Bundle of Myrrh (1908, poetry)
The Song of Hugh Glass (1915, Cycle of the West)
The Quest (1916)
The Song of Three Friends (1919, Cycle of the West)
The Splendid Wayfaring (1920)
The Song of the Indian Wars (1925, Cycle of the West)
Indian Tales and Others (1926)
Black Elk Speaks (1932)
The Song of the Messiah (1935, Cycle of the West)
The Song of Jed Smith (1941, Cycle of the West)
When the Tree Flowered (1951, novel)

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