Johnathan (John) Gneisenau Neihardt was an American author of poetry and prose, an amateur historian and ethnographer, and a philosopher of the Great Plains. Born at the end of the American settlement of the Plains, his attention was nevertheless drawn to the experiences and memories of those who had been a part of the European migration as well as the American Indian cultures they displaced. He travelled down the Missouri River by open boat, visited with old trappers, … Wikipedia
Neihardt would experience the harsh homestead life of drought, famine, and fire of the Great American Plains. home.pacbell.net/wgraetz/wgraetz/neihardt.htm
Author of Black Elk Speaks and numerous other works of prose and poetry, John G. Neihardt is the Poet Laureate in Perpetuity of Nebraska. www.neihardtcenter.org/
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Through Neihardt's poems and stories many people throughout the world have come into contact with the harsh beauty of the Great Plains, the larger than life stories of the Mountain Men and the Indian Wars, and the mystical world of the Sioux. As Black El www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/neihardt/moreinfo.htm
