Voice of the Old Wolf: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter and the Nez Perce Indians

by Steven Ross Evans, Trevor James Bond (Foreword by)

Overview

Lucullus V. McWhorter met and befriended Yakama and Nez Perce warriors in 1903, forming deep relationships and accumulating facts, stories, and perspectives that would otherwise have been irretrievably lost. Adopted as an honorary member of the Yakama tribe and given the name Old Wolf, he served as a stirring spokesman for non-treaty bands and captured prominent Nez Perce voices in his classic Western histories, Yellow Wolf (1940) and Hear Me, My Chiefs! (1952).

Originally published in 1996, Voice of the Old Wolf is the only biography of Lucullus V. McWhorter (1860-1944). Author Steven Ross Evans focused on the Yakima area rancher’s unique roles as Nez Perce tribal historian and collector of traditional lore to help fill a significant gap in the chronology of Nez Perce history--the post 1880s to the 1940s, and assembled numerous excellent photographs, many previously unpublished. This edition includes a new foreword describing the vast McWhorter collection held by Washington State University.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636820675
Publisher:	Washington State University Press
Publication date:	07/07/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Steven Ross Evans, (Ph. D., history, Washington State University), taught history for thirty-three years at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. He continues to research and write about the Nez Perce and the Lewis and Clark expedition. His wife, Connie, is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho.

Trevor James Bond is the codirector of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation and the associate dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries. He received his master’s in library and information science with a specialization in archives and preservation management and a master’s in ancient history at UCLA. He completed his doctorate at WSU in the Department of History in 2017.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword to the 2017 edition

I. Blood Brother
II. A Vision for Revision
III. Spirits of Wallowa and Salmon River
IV. History Postponed, and Postponed Again
V. The Vanishing Nez Perces
VI. Many Wounds, and Battlefields Revisited
VII. Splendid Travelers
VIII. Brothers on the Horizon’s Edge
IX. Yellow Wolf
X. Hear Me, My Chiefs!

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A guide written for Native Americans outlining how to trace a family tree including information on research activities and resources. Kavasch has traced her ancestry back 14 generations and draws on this experience to analyze the benefits of learning about one's origins, adoption issues, the history of Native American cultures and the relation to identity, tribal membership, oral history, and the processes of using library resources, Native American documents, and family resources to prepare a Native American biography. Includes color photographs and a map of tribes in the US and southern Canada. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"A gem of a book—in many ways one of the most informed on Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians ever written."

—-Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., author, The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest

"Voice of the Old Wolf is a wonderful work allowing readers to enter the mind and world of the non-treaty Nez Perce during those years after their return from exile in Oklahoma [1885]. Clearly McWhorter was more than a brother to his Nez Perce friends, for he left a legacy of historical information about Native Americans that will survive him for generations. The book is an original and exciting work which will change forever the way we think of the Nez Perce people."

—Cliff Trafzer, co-author of Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest

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