Broidered Garment

Hilda Martinsen Neihardt (1916–2004) was the daughter of John G. Neihardt and Mona Martinsen. She is the author of Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memories of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt and the editor of Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family, both available in Bison Books editions.

• Part I: An International Financier Family 1 Ada Ernst; 2 Mary Thorpe, Grandmother; 3. Rudolph Vinzent Martinsen; 4. Marriage; 5. A Tragic Loss; 6. Vrohmberg; 7. Big Business; 8. Family Life; 9. A Family is Broken; 10. Back in Vrohmberg; 11. Richard Scholz; 12. Mona Martisen; 13. Paris and Auguste Rodin; 14. Italy; 15. The Grand Salon, Paris; 16. The Little Book that Went to Paris; Part II: An American Pioneer Family 17. John Gneisenau Neihardt; 18. A Dream Changes a Boy's Life; 19. Searching and Vagabonding; 20. The Little Teacher; 21. Becoming a Writer Part III: The Couple 22. John and Mona; 23. A New Life; 24. A Prosy Little Village; 25. A Home of Their Own; 26. In the Ozark Mountains of Missouri; 27. Skyrim

"[A] fondly told story of the lives of John and Mona Neihardt, The Broidered Garment is a fine addition to the Neihardt canon and in the spirit of other work by Hilda Neihardt, who died in 2004. She did much to champion her father's work and reputation, performing readings of his poetry, accompanied by her son Robin on classical guitar; writing Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memories of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt; and editing Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family. The Broidered Garment completes this work as only a member of the Neihardt family could have done it." —Carolyn Johnsen, Lincoln Journal Star. "The first two sections provide a richly detailed account of the formative years of the sculptor Martinsen and the poet Neihardt, she studying in Paris with Rodin, and he writing from the small Nebraska town of Bancroft, when they first began corresponding. Section three traces their lives from their marriage in November 1908 until Mona Martinsen's death on April 17, 1958."—Nebraska History