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(8vo), quarter black cloth and handmade paper covered boards deep-stamped with 3 yellow moons and gold decor; roughcut page edges, pictorial endpapers; publisher's illustrated dustjacket. First Edition.

A beautifully presented volume by the author of Black Elk Speaks. Extremely rare in original dust jacket.

Neihardt was an American author of poetry and prose, an amateur historian and ethnographer, and a philosopher of the Great Plains. Niehardt wrote to preserve and express elements of the pioneer past in books that range across a broad variety of genres, from travelogues to epic poetry. In 1921 the Nebraska Legislature elected Neihardt as the state's poet laureate, a title he held for fifty-two years until his death. His most well-known work is Black Elk Speaks (1932), an extended narration of the visions of the Lakota medicine man Black Elk.