The Song of Three Friends
John Neihardt
Read by Phil Schempf
The Song of Three Friends is one of five epic poems in Neihardt's, "Cycle of the West". In eight cantos it tells the tale of three friends, Mike Fink, Will Carpenter and Frank Talbeau, who travel up the Missouri River in 1822 as members of Ashley's Hundred to seek their fortunes in the fur fields of the Rocky Mountains. The friends fall out over the love of a woman with fatal consequences. The Song of Three Friends won “Best Volume of Verse” from the Poetry Society of America shortly after it was published.. - Summary by Fritz (2 hr 32 min)
Chapters
Ashley's Hundred | 4:03 | Read by Phil Schempf |
The Up-stream Men | 30:58 | Read by Phil Schempf |
To The Musselshell | 11:45 | Read by Phil Schempf |
The Net Is Cast | 13:11 | Read by Phil Schempf |
The Quarrel | 23:03 | Read by Phil Schempf |
The Shooting of the Cup | 22:15 | Read by Phil Schempf |
The Third Rider | 24:03 | Read by Phil Schempf |
Vengeance | 23:36 | Read by Phil Schempf |