by Rich Wandschneider | Feb 2, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, Bill Kittredge, James Welch, Marc Jaffe, Momaday, Ursula Le Guin
The Kiowa writer Scott Momaday passed this week. He was 89. I met him once, when he came to Wallowa County to make the presentation of a horse by the Wood family to the walʔwá ma, or Joseph Band Nez Perce. He’d come across the story of the horse that Chief Joseph told...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 6, 2024 | Alvin Josephy, louis L'Amour, Marc Jaffe
I just got a brief and beautiful note from Vivienne Jaffe that her husband, Marc Jaffe, had passed on December 31 at the age of 102. Images of Marc, walking in from his morning horseback rides to breakfast at Fishtrap, addressing the Fishtrap audience to tell them...
by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 28, 2015 | Alvin Josephy, American Indians, Cliff Trafzer, Indian history, Jaime Pinkham, Marc Jaffe, Mark Trahant, Roberta Conner
Well, it’s kind of my horn, but mostly my friend and mentor, Alvin’s horn. And mutual friend and co-editor Marc Jaffe’s horn. And editor (Alvin’s own long-time editor) Ann Close’s horn. She steered us through the project, and then passed it on to Keith Goldsmith at...
