John G. Neihardt

(1881-1973) lived in Bancroft, Cuming County. Poet, author, educator, known for publishing A Cycle of the West, which took 28 years to complete, his famous work is Black Elk Speaks: Being a Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932), recipient of several awards and honors, especially important was being recognized in 1936 by the National Poetry Center in New York as the foremost poet of the nation. Consult Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol 54, American Poets 1880-1945 (Gale, 1987) 333-344 and Contemporary Authors-New Revision Series, Vol 65 (Gale 1998) 173-176.

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