Title
Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) ; illustrated by Standing Bear.
ISBN
067182144X
0671452215
9780671452216
0671785224
0671803816
9780671803810
9780671821449
067182144X
Edition
Rev. Pocket Book ed.
Published
New York : Pocket Books, 1972, ©1959.
Physical Description
xvi, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 6690: Title page verso: 9th printing ... October, 1975. Imperfect: Damp-stained. Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
Originally published by William Morrow & Company, 1932.
Summary
An account of the life of the Oglala Sioux medicine man, Black Elk, with particular emphasis on his vision of the meaning of life for the Indians of the western plains.
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002