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Title: The River and I

Author: John G. Neihardt

Release Date: October 3, 2005 [EBook #16793]

Language: English

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THE RIVER AND I

_Other Books by_
JOHN G. NEIHARDT

INDIAN TALES AND OTHERS
POETIC VALUES
THE QUEST
THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS
THE SONG OF THE INDIAN WARS
THE SONG OF THREE FRIENDS
THE SPLENDID WAYFARING
TWO MOTHERS
COLLECTED POEMS

[Illustration: NIGHT IN CAMP.]

THE
RIVER AND
I

BY
JOHN G. NEIHARDT

_Illustrated
New Edition_

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1927
_All rights reserved_

COPYRIGHT, 1910,
BY JOHN G. NEIHARDT.

Set up and electrotyped.
Reissued in new format, October, 1927.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE CORNWALL PRESS

TO
MY MOTHER

NOTE

The following account of a youthful adventure was written during the
winter of 1908, ran as a serial in _Putnam's Magazine_ the following
year, and appeared as a book in 1910, five years before "The Song of
Hugh Glass," the first piece of my Western Cycle. Many who have cared
for my narrative poems, feeling the relation between those and this
earlier avowal of an old love, have urged that "The River and I" be
reprinted.

J.G.N.

St. Louis, 1927.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE RIVER OF AN UNWRITTEN EPIC 1

II. SIXTEEN MILES OF AWE 22

III. HALF-WAY TO THE MOON 40

IV. MAKING A