by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 27, 2023 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer, Custer Battlefield, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Little Big Man
On Thursday night we watched a “rough cut” version of a documentary chronicling Alvin Josephy’s career as a historian of and advocate for Indians. Sean Cassidy, retired from Lewis-Clark State College, introduced the film, which he and fellow LC professor Patricia...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 19, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Custer, Custer myth, Henry Luce, Life Magazine, Ralph Graves
The July 2, 1971 issue of Life Magazine carried a story by Alvin Josephy called “The Custer Myth.” In the late 1960s, during the filming of “Little Big Man,” for which Alvin was a technical advisor, he took some Indian friends to see the Custer Battlefield,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 14, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, Crazy Horse, Custer Battlefield, Josephy Library intern, Life Magazine, Time Magazine
Dave Struthers, a recent graduate of Stanford University from Sacramento, California, is our new Josephy Library intern. He started yesterday, and we started him tracking down the Time Magazine “color” spreads that Alvin did from 1951-61. We have about a dozen old...
