Timeline | Featured Archives

Collection Timeline

1855 to 2022

1855	Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean A True copy of the Record of the official proceedings at the Council in the Walla Walla Valley, held jointly by Isaac I. Stevens Gov. & Supt. W.T. and Joel Palmer Supt. Indian Affiars O.T. On the part of the United States with the Tribes of Indians named in the Treaties made at that Council
1878	The Duncan McDonald Paper
1880	Personal correspondence by an Indian Agent of the Nez Perce while they were in Oklahoma.
1884	Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce
1888	Three Men of Wallowa
1890	An Interview with Chief Joseph
1892	Census of the Joseph Band of Nez Perce
1897	Gospel Hymns in the Nez Perce Language
1898	300 Miles Awheel, the story of an 1898 bicycle ride across northeast Oregon
1899	Chief Joseph
1900	Chief Joseph's Visit
1905	Memoirs of Alexander B. and Sarah Jane Findley, Books 1 and 2
1906	The Illustrated Hisotry of SE Washington
1914	Wallowa County Railroad Logging History: a few talking points
1916	Nez Perce, A Chronology Related to the 1877 War
1917	Recollections of a Rebel Reefer
1925	Wallowa County Oregon: Where to Go and What to See
1928	A Picturesque Burial Ceremony
1931	Crossing the Plains
1938	The Geology of Part of the Wallowa Mountains, bulletin no. 3
1939	A History of Placer Gold Mining in Oregon, 1850-1870
1948	Rip Roaring Celebration Set for Chief Joseph Days
1949	Wallowa Co. Chieftain Special Edition Chief Joseph Once an Unpopular Indian
1950	Of Men and Mountains The Horner Papers Members of Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation of Nez Perce Descent
1954	Historical Sketches of the Wallowa National Forest Historic Glimpses of Asotin County, Washington Home Below Hell’s Canyon In The Wallowas
1956	Autumn Across America Autumn Across America Topping Out: (a teacher of by-gone days recalls life in the great canyons of the Snake and Salmon Rivers)
1958	Idaho Yesterdays
1959	Removal of Chief Joseph's Body To Wallowa County Summer Light Verse
1960	Fellers and Things: a Collection of Crude, Rough and Rude Rhymes of a Past and a Fast Passing Generation The Indians of Idaho
1962	Avery Bell Celebrates 81st Birthday; Tells of Early Life on Upper Imnaha Memoirs of Alexander B. and Sarah Jane Findley Books 1 & 2 Wallowa County Day Camp (CJSS)
1963	Nez Perce Country, National Historic Sites, Idaho, a Feasibility Report The Cheyenne Sun Dance: A Study in Cultural Survival Newspaper announcement of the death of Otis Halfmoon, age 86 Collected account of Old Chief Joseph and his burial Memories of Chief Joseph Old Nez Perce Recalls Tragic Retreat of 1877
1964	Nez Perce Country, National Historic Sites, Idaho, a Feasibility Report The Nez Perce at Cow Island: Prelude to Surrender
1965	Some Limitations of the Renascence Concept in Acculturation: The Nez Perce Case Big Hole Battlefield The Nez Perce Country Aged Nez Perce Recalls the 1877 Tragedy The Nez Perce's Tragedy (Part One)
1966	Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana The Punitive Aftermath with Miles, Howard, Brisbin, and Doane…
1967	Farwell to Hells Canyon The Story of Wallowa Lake Wallowa, the Land of Winding Waters The Nez Perces and the Appaloosa Horse … False History?” The Appaloosa Was Not The Nez Perce War Horse A Divided Command Doomed the Nez Perces Rambles in Wonderland
1968	The Appaloosa Horse and the Nez Perce Indians Reply to Dr. Haines
1969	Chief Joseph and the Red Napoleon Myth The American Indian and the Bureau of Indian Affairs – 1969 Chief Joseph and the Red Napoleon Myth The Steptoe Affair
1970	Fettered Sovereignty: Cases & Materials on American Indian Legal Problems, Chapters IV & V Days with Chief Joseph
1971	Joseph Bank Robbery Ended on a Happy Note Bits of Wallowa County Lore The Flora Country: the Hardships and Struggles of the Matt Devin Family As Pioneers in Northern Wallowa County, Oregon Last Survivor of Nez Perce Retreat Dies
1972	Chief Joseph’s Alps: The Wallowas, Land of Winding Waters Topping Out: (a teacher of by-gone days recalls life in the great canyons of the Snake and Salmon Rivers) My Name is Im-mut-too-hay-lat-lat
1973	Wallowa: Gateway to the land of Chief Joseph...Wallowa and Nez Perce history
1974	Wallowa County Map Nez Perce Indian Portraits Lost on Cold Creek
1975	Snake River Hills: a dedication to my mother Nez Perce Sketches Indians called her "The Measuring Woman"
1976	Geology of Oregon The Wallowa Country 1867-1877 Blood and Murder: Anti-Indian Violence of the Revolutionary Frontier
1977	Hell’s Canyon, the Deepest Gorge on Earth The Story of Hell’s Canyon General Management Plan: Nez Perce National Historic Park and Big Hole National Battlefield The Nez Perces and the History of Their Troubles and the Campaign of 1877 Ollokot and Joseph The Summer of '77 At Fort Lapwai Last Trail to Bear Paw
1978	This Valley (Wallowa Valley) Union Centennial Album, City of Victorian Heritage The Wallowas: Coming of Age in the Wilderness
1979	Background to the Treaty with the Nez Perce in 1855 The Basque in Wallowa County: Cherry Creek Sheep Country Biography of Fred C. Himelwright Buildings of Wallowa: Past and Present Chief Joseph – War Chief A Duel Biography Concerning Edith Varner Reese and Robert Reese, Jr. Emmett and Erma: Beyond the Hard Times Eureka First Postmistress – Zumwalt, Oregon Historical Encounters Along the Snake River History of Agriculture in the Imnaha River Country History of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Wallowa County History of the Rocky Mountain Goat in Wallowa County A History of the Wallowa County Chieftain History of the Wallowa Valley Homestead Development of Pittsburgh Ranch The Schoolboy and the Teacher: an oral history of early Wallowa County A Study of the Nez Perce Diet Duncan McDougall. Astoria Journal, 1810-1813 A Study of the Nez Perce Diet
1980	Heritage of the Wallowas: Life as it was . . .
1981	The Lockley Files: Conversations with Pioneer Women Charolais-Wellamotkin Auto Tour
1982	The Old and the New Historical Sketches of the Eagle Cap Wilderness Correspondence regarding articles on the Appaloosa horse Appaloosa Fable (The Myth of the Appaloosa) Historical Sketches of the Eagle Cap Wilderness
1983	Nez Perce Country, A Handbook for Nez Perce National Historical Park Main Poc: Potawatomi Wabeno The Distany of the Golden Dragoon Smohalla, the Washani, and Religion as a Factor in Northwestern Indian History Smohalla, The Washani, and Religion as a Factor in Northwestern Indian History A collection of 6 notes written by U.S. military officers and Indian agents requesting safe passage for Chief Red Wolf in Oregon. Chief Looking Glass
1984	5200 Thursdays in the Wallowas: A Centennial History of the Wallowa County Chieftain Wild Horse Rider CRITFC News - 6 Volumes Shook the Hand of the White Chief
1985	Horses 'as Fat as Seals': The Ecology and Economuy of Nez Perce Herding in the Nineteenth Century
1986	American Indians, Time and the Law Idaho Indians, Idaho’s Heritage
1987	Enterprise High School Class of 1937 Wallowa County’s First 100 Years, includeing article ‘Nez Perce Battled to Keep Homeland Wallowa Co. Chieftain Special Centennial Edition Pioneering in the Wallowas, Four Frontier Tales True Unity, Willing Communication Between Horse and Human, Tom Dorrance Talks About Horses Wallowa County, Oregon, A Capsule History Pioneering in the Wallowas: Four Frontier Tales Historical Notes on Fish & Wildlife of the Grande Ronde Basin Iin Timiip Nisa’ (I Remember): Dedicated to Lapwai's past and the stories lost to us "State of Oregon, Plaintiff, vs. William Paul Nanpooya, Sr., Defendant." Also, "Chief Joseph Band Hunters Backed."
1988	An American Vignette An American Vignette Annual Tamkaliks Celebration, Wallowa, OR The Chief Joseph Legend, A Choral Symphony in Five parts, Part 5: Choral Finale
1989	Around the Cat’s Back Around the Cat’s Back This is Your Guide to Wallowa County: the Land of Winding Waters
1990	Chief Joseph's Songs Retold In the Hills Nez Perce National Historic Trail Comprehensive Plan (draft)
1991	The Rustic Valley Vol. IV, No. 1; A Foxfire Project Fire Destroys Landmark Building Urban Growth Zoning Fools Local Officials From the Wallowas
1992	The Deepest Canyon on the Continent Portland Hunter Dies After Dramatic Rescue From the Wallowas School Days in the Wallowas: a history of the ninety-one schools and communities of Wallowa Co., Oregon Scenes from Skirmishes on the Bilingual Front Register of the Institute of the American West Records Seventeen essays and short stories by this Idaho author Bull Trout, Walking Grouse and Buffalo Bones, Oral Histories of Northeast Oregon Fish and Wildlife Into the Face of History
1993	This Bloody Deed, The Magruder Incident Gifts of the New World
1994	The Fruit Merchants of Hells Canyon: the story of Archibald Ritchie & John Eckles on the Payette National Forest Colville - Chief Joseph Band Meeting A letter from Walter Copping To Mrs. DeCamp
1995	Uncovering a Massacre Hiking the High Wallowas and Hell’s Canyon In the Hands of Our Creator Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, Thunder Traveling to Loftier Mountain Heights, The Chief Joseph Monument
1996	Hiking Oregon’s Geology Redfish Waters, Redfish Dreams River Visit Brings Vision of Past, Future Expelled in 1877, Indian Tribe is Now Wanted As a Resource
1997	Signal Mountain: Northeast Oregon’s Own Historical Magazine Oregon’s Wallowa Valley The One Hundred Year Lie that Told the Truth: Chief Joseph’s Surrender Speech as a Literary Text The Gift Family Takes Gift to Heart General Management Plan, Nez Perce National Historic Park and Big Hole National Battlefield Hete’ Wits Wetes, Precious Land The One Hundred Year Lie that Told The Truth: Chief Joseph's Surrender Speech as a Literary Text Legacy of Survival A Gift Worthy of a Chief The Gift Horse Sometimes the Magic Works Chief Joseph
1998	Signal Mountain: Northeast Oregon’s Own Historical Magazine The McClaren Ranch Gone But Not Forgotten: the Pioneers of the I.O.O.F Cemetery, Joseph, OR, Their Lives and Times Feasibility for Reintroducing Sockeye and Coho Salmon in the Grande Ronde Basin Sockeye Salmon, Sockeye Dreams Summer 2003 Progress Report; and an undated memo from the Nez Perce Foudation Chair of 1998-1999 Making Things Right: The Work of the Umatilla Indian Crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps at Old Chief Joseph Cemetary, Wallowa Lake, Oregon, 1937-1942 A Conversation with Priscilla Craig, Nez Perce Elder A Struggle for Peace
1999	Signal Mountain: Northeast Oregon’s Own Historical Magazine Wallowa: Land of Winding Waters Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity Nez Perce Art in the Wallowas The Invalidity of the Nez Perce Treaty of 1863 and the Taking of the Wallowa Valley An Evening with Otis Halfmoon
2000	Signal Mountain: Northeast Oregon’s Own Historical Magazine About Wallowa County: People, Places, Images About Wallowa County: People, Places, Images Wallowa Valley Barn Tour Claiming the Watershed: Property Lines, Treaty Rights, and Collaborative Natural Resource Management Planning in Rural Oregon Young Chief Joseph’s visit to the Wallowas in 1900
2001	Signal Mountain: Northeast Oregon’s Own Historical Magazine Looking Back at Enterprise, Oregon: a Photographic Portrait Looking Back at Our Town: a Photographic Portrait of Wallowa, Oregon The Town That Was Maxville: the Story of a Vanished Oregon Logging Town and the People Who Called It Home The Treaty of 1855 Has Not Been Lived Up to and We Have No Faith That This Will Be Lived up to: The 1867 Nez Perce Treaty Council
2002	I Remember Life in Hell’s Canyon, a private view My Days in Northeast Oregon Numipu Among the White Settlers
2003	Gateway to the Wallowas The First Winter: a Homesteader’s Memories of the 1880’s The Nimiipu, After the War of 1877 The Nimiipu: The Nez Perce War of 1877 Re-Viewing History: Native Americans in Night Rider and Chief Joseph
2004	The Horner Papers Index It’s Never Too Late to Give Away a Horse Lolo Trail and Prtals Resource Protection, Decision Notice, and Finding of No significant Impact Nez Perce Fight an Old Battle Again Lolo Trail and Portals Resource Protection, Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center, Inc: A Foundation Document
2005	The Bly (and Edgmand) Ranch, A Pictorial History The Bly (and Edgmand) Ranch: A Pictorial History The Horner Papers Index The History Of Grazing in Wallowa County
2006	Ranch History: An Addendum An Ethnohistoric Assessment of Nez Perce Relationships with the Marr Ranch Property, Wallowa Lake, and the Wallowa Country
2007	Growth and Trends in Emigrant Populations: Wallowa Precinct of Union Co., OR 1871-1930 Nez Perce Country
2008	Hell’s Canyon & the Middle Snake River, a story of the land and its people It’s the Dash – Antarctica, South Georgia & the Falkland Islands Wali’mliyas: The Nez Perce National Historic Park Dugout Canoe Collection and Dugout Canoe Use Among the Nez Perce Indians Nez Perce Stories
2009	Termination of The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon: Politics, Community, Identity Chronology of Salmon Decline in the Columbia River, 1779-Present
2010	Four Lines a Day: the Life and Times of an Imnaha Ranch Woman
2011
2012	The Wallowas - 2012 Wallowa County Visitor Guide Caritas Chorale – Nez Perce: Promises
2013	Bombers Landing an Emotional Event My Eastern Oregon Salmon Passage in Upper Columbia may be a Reality in Near Future says Councilman Sirois First Salmon Ritual Has Great Meaning Nez Perce Tribe Exercises Treaty Grazing Right Chief Joseph watches a University of Washington football game and gives a speech in Seattle
2014	Living with Thunder: Exploring the Geologic Past, Present and Future of the Pacific Northwest Bison of Eastern Oregon The Hunt for Oregon Missionary Sources: Clifford M. Drury’s Enduring Archives Legacy My Life on Joseph Creek by Julie Kooch Forest Stewardship in the 21st Century Brown Bag
2015	Josephy Library at Fishtrap The Longest Trail
2016	NE Oregon’s Magazine Wave of Fire Plagues Enterprise: 1970-71 Seasons Silently Waiting Pacific Lamprey The Circle of Friendship Early Days News Account of Battle with Chief Joseph’s Warriors Musica: Bells (hand bells) Music Bag Walter Brennan Days: Carl Rollyson Presentation Museums: Places of Learning Quinoa in Wallowa County Pinkham Family Brown Bag Abigail Scott Duniway & Women's Suffrage in the NW
2017	Talk Centers on Nez Perce Canoes Saving Salmon, Time to Breach? Framing Brown Bag The Environmental Movement Calculus Civil Rights Print Making Nez Perce Cradleboard Brown Bag Nez Perce Dugout Canoe Build An American Forrest Music Bag Health Care Brown Bag Hiking in Hells Canyon Brown Bag Home Energy Housing I: Wallowa County Discussion Housing II Housing III: Small Houses JFK Brown Bag Women in Wildlife Stone Lithography LBJ Ranch Luthier - Guitar Building A Career of Creating with Clay The Black Experience in Wallowa County Encaustic Art Brown Bag Cowboy 101 and Cowboys I Have Known Musical Brown Bag - Nevad Sowle Chief Joseph Legend Symphony Three Women Artists From Maxville to Vanport Performance Big Read: Vietnam Brown Bag
2018	Snake River Chinook Retain More Ancestral Genetics Land Returned to Nez Perce Nez Perce Conservation Project Receives Funds 7003 Days in the Frank River Church of No Return Wilderness Dams Fish and Controversy Exhibit Opening Lecture Associated Ditch Committee Brown Bag Nez Perce Dolls Eastern Oregon Agriculture Wallowa County Farmer's Market Brown Bag Grit and Ink Book Release Navigating the Imnaha and Beyond Wallowa County Library Measure Brown Bag Dog Sledding Wallowa Bird Nests Brown Bag Music Bag (Brian Oliver) The Nature Conservancy Brown Bag Tunisian Student Brown Bag Dog Training Brown Bag Wallowa History Center Brown Bag Wallowa Mountains Hells Canyon Trails Association Brown Bag Nez Perce Cradleboard Brown Bag
2019	Wallowa History Center Brown Bag EOU Ag and Natural Resource Program Nez Perce Teaching Box Etwetyé * wise: The Return
2020	Canoes Take Shape Joel Karabo Elliott Concert New Nez Perce Exhibit Bart Budwig Trio Concert Seth Kinzie Piano Music Bag Printmaking at home Potato printmaking for kids Running a local newspaper A plan to upgrade the local recycling center Margo Cilker Concert Update on Farmers Market Cece Curry's One Bowl Banana Bread Fishtrap Goes Virtual COVID in Tourist Towns Creative Journeys of Three Local Artists Hydropower in Wallowa County Forests Can Live With Fire "Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918" by Laura Spinney Changing Use Patterns in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Clif & Nelda's Little Big Band Concert The Story of Sunrise Iron But Not Jim Crow... Edsel White Historical Postcard Collection Parkinson's Disease by 3 County residents
2021	Winter Fishtrap Nature Conservancy The Keys to Josephy's Future COVID19 Service Dogs Book Club: Black History Month Buck Tag Raffle Drawing Josephy Center Capital Campaign Women's Art Exhibit Fire Stories Fire in the West Wallowa Resources Wallowa Memorial Hospital Wallowa Resources HAWK Intern Program COVID19 COVID19 My Time in Tanzania Book Club: Murder of Missionaries Art Matters: 2021 Scientific and Nez Perce Information What's Available at the Josephy Center Leah Johnson at Element Book Group: Scott Momaday Reading "A Child's Christmas in Wales"
2022	Ellen Bishop: Nature in Abstract Rocks Philosophy and Sport Exhibit: Nature in the Abstract The Lighter Side: Women's Art Exhibit Susan Murrell Brown Bag Wallowa Music Violin with Robyn and Mike Burns Interview with Roger Amerman Josephy Center Spring Campaign Suicide Heartwood Exhibit Sterling Webb, Moonshine Glass Peace Building Advanced Directives Nez Perce National Park Creating Jewelry Art

Featured Archives

Collection Timeline

1855 to 2022

1855

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

A True copy of the Record of the official proceedings at the Council in the Walla Walla Valley, held jointly by Isaac I. Stevens Gov. & Supt. W.T. and Joel Palmer Supt. Indian Affiars O.T. On the part of the United States with the Tribes of Indians named in the Treaties made at that Council

1878

The Duncan McDonald Paper

1880

Personal correspondence by an Indian Agent of the Nez Perce while they were in Oklahoma.

1884

Chief Joseph, the Nez Perce

1888

Three Men of Wallowa

1890

An Interview with Chief Joseph

1892

Census of the Joseph Band of Nez Perce

1897

Gospel Hymns in the Nez Perce Language

1898

300 Miles Awheel, the story of an 1898 bicycle ride across northeast Oregon

1899

Chief Joseph

1900

Chief Joseph's Visit

1905

Memoirs of Alexander B. and Sarah Jane Findley, Books 1 and 2

1906

The Illustrated Hisotry of SE Washington

1914

Wallowa County Railroad Logging History: a few talking points

1916

Nez Perce, A Chronology Related to the 1877 War

1917

Recollections of a Rebel Reefer

1925

Wallowa County Oregon: Where to Go and What to See

1928

A Picturesque Burial Ceremony

1931

Crossing the Plains

1938

The Geology of Part of the Wallowa Mountains, bulletin no. 3

1939

A History of Placer Gold Mining in Oregon, 1850-1870

1948

Rip Roaring Celebration Set for Chief Joseph Days

1949

Wallowa Co. Chieftain Special Edition

Chief Joseph Once an Unpopular Indian

1950

Of Men and Mountains

The Horner Papers

Members of Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation of Nez Perce Descent

1954

Historical Sketches of the Wallowa National Forest

Historic Glimpses of Asotin County, Washington

Home Below Hell’s Canyon

In The Wallowas

1956

Autumn Across America

Autumn Across America

Topping Out: (a teacher of by-gone days recalls life in the great canyons of the Snake and Salmon Rivers)

1958

Idaho Yesterdays

1959

Removal of Chief Joseph's Body To Wallowa County

Summer Light Verse

1960

Fellers and Things: a Collection of Crude, Rough and Rude Rhymes of a Past and a Fast Passing Generation

The Indians of Idaho

1962

Avery Bell Celebrates 81st Birthday; Tells of Early Life on Upper Imnaha

Memoirs of Alexander B. and Sarah Jane Findley Books 1 & 2

Wallowa County Day Camp (CJSS)

1963

Nez Perce Country, National Historic Sites, Idaho, a Feasibility Report

The Cheyenne Sun Dance: A Study in Cultural Survival

Newspaper announcement of the death of Otis Halfmoon, age 86