Deeply impressed, he wrote widely successful short stories based on these talks. In that job he got to know many of the old “long hairs” on the Omaha reservation nearby. The family moved to Bancroft, Nebraska, where Neihardt worked for an Indian trader.
1897Īt sixteen, Neihardt graduated from Nebraska Normal College (now Wayne State) which lifted him “to a higher, creative level of being.” 1900 In later years, Neihardt remembered Wayne fondly as his “hill of vision.” For there, only eleven years old, in a fevered dream, he received his calling to become a poet. His father left the family, and they moved to Wayne, Nebraska.
The family lived in Kansas City, where, on Sunday walks with his father, encounters with the great Missouri River gave Neihardt the “first wee glimpse into the infinite” that grew into a lifelong spiritual vision. In his autobiographical book, All Is But A Beginning, Neihardt talks vividly of these early years. There at an early age he gained the visions of a vast land and its elemental powers that infused all his later life and writings. John G Neihardt lived for a year with his mother and two sisters in the sodhouse of his maternal grandfather near Stockton, Kansas.
John Gneisenau Neihardt was born in a one-room cabin near Sharpsburg, Illinois.
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