Voice of the Old Wolf, originally published in 1996, is the only full-length biography of Lucullus V. McWhorter (1860-1944). The Yakima-area rancher 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 a tribe member, 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). This edition includes a new foreword describing the vast McWhorter collection by Trevor James Bond, associate dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at Washington State University’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections.

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of Nez Perce history--the post 1880s to the 1940s, and assembled numerous excellent photographs, many previously unpublished.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.

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