When Yellow Wolf, as one of the few surviving participants of the Nez Perce War, decided to narrate the hitherto unrevealed story of Indian strategy and policy in that conflict, his friend, scribe, and commentator in this task was Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, then resident near the Nez Perces’ autumnal camping grounds.
Yellow Wolf could have found no more qualified a writer, for Mr. McWhorter had spent his entire life in the study of Indian history and lore. As a child he reveled in the sagas of the red man, as they were told to him by pioneers of the Alleghenies. In his early teens he prevailed upon his little sister to bore his ears in Indian fashion, so that he might more readily take up his life among them.
By Lucullus Virgil McWhorter. Softcover, 328 pages.
