by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 31, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Bartlett, Grace Bartlett, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Homeland, Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Nez Perce Tribe, Nez Perce War, Umatilla, Wallowa, Wallowa Country, Wallowa County, Wallowa Lake, Wallowas
This summer we have been doing Friday conversations on local and Nez Perce history. This Friday was the last session for 2024. We focused on Grace Bartlett and her book, The Wallowa Country, 1866-76. I hadn’t read the book in years, remembering always that it was a...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 21, 2020 | 1855 Great, 1863 treaty, Chief Joseph, General Howard, Grace Bartlett, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, President Grant, Wallowa
I have been fascinated by President Grant’s proposed “Reservation for the Roaming Nez Perce Indians of the Wallowa Valley” since I saw the map of it in Grace Bartlett’s Wallowa Country: 1867-1877 years ago. I thought that if those Nez Perce had just had the...
by Rich Wandschneider | Dec 4, 2018 | Alvin Josephy, America in 1492, Fifty Years in Oregon, Geer, Grace Bartlett, Nez Perce, T.T, Wallowa Lake
Alvin Josephy said many times that the greatest injustice done to the Indian people in this country was not the takings of land, language, and culture, but a continuing failure to acknowledge that they existed—or at least that they ever existed as people in their own...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 15, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Bobbie Conner, Chief Joseph, Grace Bartlett, Lewis and Clark, Nez Perce, Nez Perce National Park, Wallowa
A few hundred Nez Perce Indians called this Valley home for thousands of years. They called themselves Nimipu (“the people”) and identified with this place, their families, their band and its headmen (Young Joseph, Old Joseph, Wal-lam-wat-kain, and on and on) more...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 22, 2013 | Chief Joseph, Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce, Grace Bartlett, James Brust, John Fouch, Kent Nerburn, Nez Perce, Orlando Gofff
Goff photo used by BartlettAnn Hayes, the late Grace Bartlett’s daughter, came by with a folder full of photos and clippings from her mother’s papers (which are being cataloged by Shannon Maslach). We were looking for originals –or at least good prints—of photos used...
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...
