A Cycle of the West
by John G. Neihardt
348 pages~6 hrs
“History becomes legend in this definitive epic of the American frontier.”
Neihardt’s epic masterpiece breathes life into the rugged legends of fur traders and the final struggles of the Plains Indians through soaring, rhythmic verse. Witness the brutal survival of Hugh Glass and the fading of the untamed frontier in this definitive poetic chronicle of the American West.
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