First published epic poem by John Neihardt

The Divine Enchantment

Literature & Fiction

Neihardt, John G.

Poetry

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

Life's Lure

Genre Fiction

The Song of Hugh Glass

Epic poem about mountain men explorers in the American West

The Song of Three Friends

The story of the famous mountain man Jedediah Smith

The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers ... River to the Pacific Ocean, 1822-1831

History

Americas

Second volume of the epic poem A Cycle of the West, covering the valiant resistance by Plains Indians

The Twilight of the Sioux: A Cycle of the West II

Neihardt, John Gneisenau

Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens. The stories, poems, and essays in Forgotten Borough offer twenty-four takes on New York City’s biggest underdog: Queens. From the immigrant communities of Forest Hills to the unsung heroes of Maspeth and the bustling crowds of Flushing, Queens is the most diverse county in the United States, but unlike the iconic boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Bronx, it’s neither as well known in other parts of the country nor as well traveled by New Yorkers (at least those who don’t need to take the 7 Train to get home). Featuring writers who hail from the borough as well as those who have moved there and come to call it home, Forgotten Borough uncovers the New York stories that most of us don’t get to hear, tales that reflect not only upon contemporary life in Queens but also its humble history and its evolution to the multicultural community―the community of communities―it is today. Taken together, they offer a vivid, layered portrait of Queens as a microcosm of America, where race, ethnicity, class, and industrial growth all influence our collective past, as well as our present and future.

Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens

History & Criticism

Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (Excelsior Editions)

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan. A rich narrative recounting the life story of award-winning African American historian and novelist Allen B. Ballard, Breaching Jericho’s Walls takes its readers on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadelphia community in the 1930s to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan. The author reflects on his own pioneering role as he expands his horizons, as one of the first African American students at Ohio’s Kenyon College, studying abroad in France and sharing a café table with Richard Wright and James Baldwin, serving in the military in the American South and attending graduate school at Harvard University. Becoming one of the nation’s first black Russian specialists, Ballard studies in post-Stalinist Russia for a year, where, among other adventures, he spends a month with Michael Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, on a Soviet farm. Though he tells his own personal story within Breaching Jericho’s Walls, Ballard also portrays the experiences of those northern African-Americans whose generations bridged the gap from the legacy of slavery to the breakdown of the segregated system in the 1950s and 1960s while revealing the crucial role that individuals like civil rights leader Paul Robeson, Olympic athletes Jesse Owens and Long John Woodruff, and scholar Alain Locke played in inspiring the hopes of an oppressed and downtrodden race. A memoir filled with entertaining anecdotes and insightful reflection, Breaching Jericho’s Walls offers Ballard’s compelling personal story and reveals how, brick by brick, African Americans built the road that led to the election of President Obama in 2008.

Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Ballard, Allen B.

Community & Culture

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The Divine Enchantment

Life's Lure

The Song of Hugh Glass

The Song of Three Friends

The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers ... River to the Pacific Ocean, 1822-1831

The Twilight of the Sioux: A Cycle of the West II

Life's Lure

Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens

Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (Excelsior Editions)

Breaching Jericho's Walls: A Twentieth-Century African American Life