by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 25, 2013 | Chief Joseph's daughter, Eliza Gale, Hudson’s Bay Company, joseph gale, Oregon history, Oregon territory
We don’t know how things will turn out in Egypt, Libya, or Syria, don’t know where the Arab Spring will take the people who are in the midst of it, or, for that matter, what impacts it will have on us, living thousands of miles away but connected by war, trade, and...
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...
