by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 21, 2017 | assimilation, Chief Joseph, Daniel Sharfstein, General Howard, Reconstruction, Tamastslikt
Two weeks ago, friend Anne Richardson arranged a discussion of Daniel Sharfstein’s book on Chief Joseph and General Howard, Thunder in the Mountains, at Portland’s Black Hat Books. And this week, on Thursday, 14 of us from Wallowa County spent the day with...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 30, 2017 | Chief Joseph, Daniel Sharfstein, General Howard, Nespelem, Nez Perce, Thunder in the Mountains
Young Joseph’s Monument, NespelemThis weekend a Nez Perce friend handed me a copy of a letter, written in 1940, by Walter Copping, a white man who had been a storekeeper at Nespelem, Washington. The letter writer says that Chief Joseph died in the fall of 1904 while...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 31, 2017 | California genocide, Chief Joseph, Civil War, Daniel Sharfstein, forty acres and a mule, Freedmen’s Bureau, General Howard, Nez Perce War, Reconstruction, The Other Slavery
I don’t know where I first heard or read that history books are often more about the time they are written in than the time they are written about. Several new books on Indians, and specifically the Nez Perce, support the idea. O.O. Howard and Chief Joseph I’m only 80...
by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 13, 2017 | Chief Joseph, Daniel Sharfstein, David Osborne, Daytime Smoke, Freedmen’s Bureau, Nez Perce War, O.O. Howard, Think out loud, Thunder in the Mountains, William Clark
Oregon Public Radio’s Dave Miller interviewed Daniel Sharfstein, author of the latest Nez Perce book, Thunder in the Mountains, yesterday on his “Think-Out-Loud” program. That came right on the heels of my reading David Osborne’s just released novel, The Coming, which...
