Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1986). A memoir about growing up in the Midwest, written when he was in his nineties, by this author best know for cycle of epic poems about the American West and for Black Elk Speaks. It describes the people and events instrumental in shaping his life as a poet, historian, and authority on Indians. Introduction by Dick Cavett. x, 173 pp. ISBN: 0-803283555.