by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 2, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Bill Kittredge, James Welch, Marc Jaffe, Momaday, Ursula Le Guin
The Kiowa writer Scott Momaday passed this week. He was 89. I met him once, when he came to Wallowa County to make the presentation of a horse by the Wood family to the walʔwá ma, or Joseph Band Nez Perce. He’d come across the story of the horse that Chief Joseph told...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 21, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Bill Kittredge, Craig Lesley, Ivan Doig, Red Clay, Something for the Birds
I finally got a copy of the movie, which was based in part on a story by Alvin Josephy, and stars Victor Mature as a Washington D.C. lobbyist and Patricia Neal as a bird lover on a mission to save California’s giant condors. The movie is nicely done—I particularly...
