by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 4, 2014 | 1855 treaty, Alvin Josephy, Civil War and Indians, Civil War In the West, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Stevens treaties
Yesterday in line at the grocery store, a new young clerk was telling someone how interested he was in the Civil War, and how he really wanted to go east and visit Antietam. I piped up to suggest that he think about the civil war in the west. Had he ever...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 13, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Bear River, Civil War and Indians, Civil War In the West, Gordon Chappell, Indian massacres, Sand Creek, Time-Life books
Our class at the Josephy Center read the Introduction and the “Manifest Destiny” chapter from Alvin’s Civil War in the American West this week. I was struck again by the paucity of information in general circulation—i.e., textbooks, movies, TV shows, and popular...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 11, 2012 | 500 nations, Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Civil War and Indians, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Sand Creek Massacre
Back in April, I got notice that the theme for the Pacific Northwest History Association’s fall meeting in Tacoma, Washington was to be “The Civil War and Civil Rights.” As it happened, I was reading Alvin J’s The Civil War in the American West at the time, and...
