COPYRIGHT, 1910,
BY JOHN G. NEIHARDT.

Set up and electrotyped.
Reissued in new format, October, 1927.



PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE CORNWALL PRESS




TO
MY MOTHER




NOTE


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.