by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 21, 2013 | black cowboys, david thompson, fur traders, george fletcher, joseph gale, martin luther king, pendleton roundup, umatilla reservation
George Fletcher, Pendleton RoundupIn 1968, fresh back from my Peace Corps stint in Turkey, I got involved with the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington D.C. I was a bit player, a soldier carrying cautionary words—the Campaign would go on and would not be...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 6, 2012 | 1491, Alvin Josephy, American West Magazine, beaver hats, Charles Mann, Columbian Exchange, fur trade, fur traders, Hudson’s Bay Company, Louisiana Purchase, Plymouth colony, smallpox
Sometimes you read something or hear something or something happens that changes how you look at the world. For me, reading Charles Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, and thinking about world history in terms of the “Columbian Exchange” did...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 2, 2012 | Alfred Seton, Alvin Josephy, Duncan McDougall, Fayre and Gentle Meanes, fur trade, fur traders, Hudson’s Bay Company, New York Brand Book, The Westerners
I just read “The Hudson Bay Company and the American Indians,” a three-part series Alvin originally published in 1971 in The Westerners: New York Posse BrandBook (I love the Westerners! See November 2010 post) that was reprinted with color photography as “By Fayre and...
