by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 27, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Civil War American West, lynda lanker, Oregon Historical Society, Susan Armitage, The Women's West, Tough by Nature, Wallowas
Alvin Josephy cried loud and often about the omission of Indians from textbook histories, and often thanked the amateur historians—the “history buffs”—for keeping Western history alive when serious historians busied themselves with government reports and people and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 16, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, American Indian diet, Civil War American West, colonialism, commodity foods, demise of buffalo, Indian diet, little ice age
I’m stretching my Josephy Library legs, offering a class—“Introduction to Indian Studies and the Nez Perce Story”—at the new Josephy Center. It’s based on Alvin materials—chapters from books, speeches, and journal articles he wrote over 50 years—and has become a...
