| 1907 | The Lonesome Trail. The Illinois-born writer's first book, a collection of short stories, draws on his experiences living among Native Americans in Nebraska from 1897 to 1907. He also publishes a collection of lyrics, A Bundle of Myrrh. |
| 1915 | The Song of Hugh Glass. The first volume of Neihardt's five-part epic, tracing the history of the American West and the passing of the Plains Indians, begins in the 1820s with the trappers and mountainmen Glass and Jim Bridger. Subsequent volumes are The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of the Indian War (1923), The Song of the Messiah (1935), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), together collected as A Cycle of the West (1949). |
| 1932 | Black Elk Speaks. Neihardt converts his interviews with the Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) into a first-person autobiographical account, praised by Carl Jung for its mysticism and psychological insights. It has been called "a North American bible of all tribes." Black Elk survived the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee. His account of Sioux religious rites appears in The Sacred Pipe (1953). |
The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
