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1080 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1958
As I take leave of the dying year [1867] and welcome its successor, I am alone in a log house in the heart of the deserts of the American continent, dreaming of my dear absent ones, and looking back on bygone days.
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But what do I know? After all that, in comparison to what I should still be able to learn, if life were not too short and if one did not forget with the years half of what is learned. The little Greek that I knew I have forgotten. I should have forgotten Italian while studying Spanish if I had not stopped myself in time. And now I am learning Sioux…