by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 16, 2021 | Beth Piatote, Bobbie Conner, Indian Horse, Louise Erdrich. Turtle Mountain Reservation, Momaday, spalding, whitman, Whitman College
Here’s how I found my way to The Way to Rainy Mountain For the past few years, the Josephy Center has had a book group. It started with small, in-person meetings, and moved online with the coming of Covid. Our last book was Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 2, 2021 | Bison Books, Catholicism, Manifest Destiny, Marcus Whitman, Reverend Spalding, smallpox epidemic of 1780s, spalding, whitman
My last rambling blog post tried to link missionaries Whitman and Spalding, Catholic and anti-Catholic Northwesterners, Yale historians, Manifest Destiny, the Fur Trade, Whitman College and Bison Books into a tidy essay on history and historiography. I could have done...
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,...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jul 14, 2021 | Blaine Harden, Indian removal, Indian Territory, Indian treaties, Kellen Trellen, Nez Perce, Nez Perce treaty, Phil Cash Cash, spalding, Walla walla treaty, whitman, Whitman College
I’ve been writing Josephy Library blog posts for ten years, telling stories of lies, outrages, and omissions regarding Indians in American history. From time to time, I’ve thought I should make a book, comb and clean the posts up a bit, sometimes combine a couple or...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 13, 2013 | American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, chaldean, christians in middle east, early american missionaries, Jason Lee, spalding, syrian orthodox, whitman
For the past several months one of my curiosities has been the early Christian missionaries in the Oregon Territory. Who were they? When and how did they come? What did they bring with them and what did they do on arrival? How did they get along with each other? Why...
by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 6, 2013 | fur trade, history of corn, Indian gardens, Iroquis farm, maise, mound builders, Pacific Northwest Indians, pre-columbian agriculture, spalding, whitman
Ok, I should have thought this whole thing through before launching food travel theories. Josephy reminded us years ago, in Indian Heritage of America, 1492 and other places, that about half of present world food crops originated in the Western hemisphere: corn,...
