Lonesome Dreamer

American poet and writer John G. Neihardt (1881–1973) possessed an inquiring and spiritual mind. Those qualities came to the fore in Black Elk Speaks , the story of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, for which he is best remembered. Over the course of thirty years he also wrote a five-volume epic poem, A Cycle of the West , which told the story of the settling of the American West.  Despite Neihardt’s widespread name recognition, the success of Black Elk Speaks , and a list of critically a