THE RIVER AND I

Night in Camp.

THE
RIVER AND
I

BY

JOHN G. NEIHARDT

Illustrated
New Edition

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1927
All rights reserved

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.

J.G.N.

St. Louis, 1927.

CONTENTS

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

• Night in Camp Frontispiece
• 
    FACING PAGE
• "Off on the Perilous Floods" 6
• Barriers Formed before Him 7
• The Boats Wrecked in an Ice Gorge 7
• After the Spring Break-Up 18
• "Hole-in-the-Wall" Rock on the Upper Missouri 19
• Palisades of the Upper Missouri 19
• Great Falls from Cliff Above 30
• Great Falls from the Front 31
• "This was Benton" 52
• Ruins of Old Fort Benton 52
• The House of the Bourgeois 53
• A Round-Up Outfit on the March 62
• Joe 62
• Montana Sheep public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@16793@[email protected]#image15"