Mourning Dove finished writing Cogewea in 1912 .
It was not published by the Four Seas Press until 1927 , after Mourning Dove 's friend and editor , Lucullus Virgil McWhorter had threatened to sue the press to have the book released .
Mourning Dove finished writing Cogewea in 1912 but it was not published by the Four Seas Press until 1927 , after Mourning Dove 's friend and editor , Lucullus Virgil McWhorter had threatened to sue the press to have the book released .