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 | Jul 3, 2013 | Civil War In the West, Grace Bartlett, Isaac Stevens, northern rail route, Rail routes West. Pacific railroads, Robert Sawyer, Stevens treaties
For folks with a keen interest in Western history, our Josephy Library is a small treasure ground. And like any treasure field, the prizes show up almost at random.Summer intern Erik Anderson, a bibliophile and student of Don Snow’s at Whitman College, suggested I...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 25, 2013 | Alvin Josephy, Bear River Massacre, Chivington, Civil War In the West, Colonel Patrick Conner, Minnesota Indians, New Ulm, Sand Creek Massacre
From the Pequot War forward, Alvin Josephy wrote in a 1979 article in The Indian Historian, Whites gave the Native Americans three options. The first was that they could stop being Indians and turn themselves into Whites. They would have their hair cut, wear...
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...
