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The Catholic Fur-Trading North

by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 29, 2021 | Alvin Josephy, Blaine Harden, historiography, Sara Koenig, spalding, Spokane Garry, whitman

When I had the bookstore all those years ago, I kept a big supply of Bison Books from the University of Nebraska that told the tales of the fur traders and mountain men. It was not my thing; American history was not my thing. I read fiction and short stories,...

A meditation on historiography—Alfred Crosby and Alvin Josephy

by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 5, 2014 | Alfred Crosby, Alvin Josephy, Charles Mann, historiography

Commenting on my last blog, in which I played that major Josephy song about Indians being omitted from the standard American historical narrative, retired history prof Steve Evans said that he would ask students what American history would look like without...
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