Letter from John G. Neihardt to Lucile Aly, June 4, 1963

6-4-63 Dear Lucile:

I'm starting for Lincoln this morning — by car. I'll recite lyrics at the dinner of the Alumni Congress June 6th. Next morning, drive to Omaha, do a TV program at noon & something at a Country Club dinner in the evening of the 7th. I'll stay at the Blackstone that night, and next day Knipmeyer will pick me up, & we'll start for Bancroft, Wayne — and then (hold your hat!) Churchill on Hudson Bay! That is the Edge of Nowhere-in-Particular. Beyond that point is the haunt of hippogriffs. We will findfind old Stanley on the 26th of June; then he and

I will set out on an auto expedition to the Yellowstone [basin?] and basin and Black Hills. We'll have a trailer & will camp on battlefields and dream back what happened there. (Boom! Boom! Heap big fight!!)

Then, after ten days, — to Eugene! I'll write, wire, or phone you, and I do hope you can pick me up. I'm sure I'd be tuckered out if'n I walked all the way to Eugene.

What an adventure old Stewart will have! Wow! Also hurrah!

Forever and ever — John Neihardt