The Song of Three Friends is a resounding tribute to the intrepid explorers and mountain men who braved the western wilderness in the first decades of the nineteenth century. How was the rugged American West braved and then settled? America’s foremost epic poet John G. Neihardt tells of the ordeal of the last frontier and how a stalwart character could prove to be more than a match for it.

Luminous and rousing, The Song of Three Friends is also an essential tale in Neihardt’s epic masterpiece, A Cycle of the West, now available in two affordable volumes from Excelsior Editions.