The River and I

by John G. Neihardt

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.

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CONTENTS

• CHAPTER PAGE
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  I. The River of an Unwritten Epic [1]
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  II. Sixteen Miles of Awe [22]
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  III. Half-Way to the Moon [40]
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  IV. Making a Getaway [65]
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  V. Through the Region of Weir [84]
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  VI. Getting Down to Business [113]
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  VII. On to the Yellowstone [137]
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  VIII. Down from the Yellowstone [165]

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