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Article: WSU TREASURE-TROVE YIELDS BOOK ON FRIEND OF NEZ PERCE.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 30, 1996
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As a schoolboy growing up in eastern Oregon, Steven Ross Evans was enthralled by the epic account of Nez Perce Indian warriors told in L.V. McWhorter's book, ``Yellow Wolf: His Own Story.''
McWhorter combined his consuming interest in Indian people with a self-education in classic literature to spin a heroic tale that was both historically balanced yet appealing to an adventure-loving young reader.
Years later, by now a history professor at Lewiston's Lewis-Clark State College, Evans was captivated again when he discovered the McWhorter Collection at Washington State University in Pullman.
There were boxes and boxes of books and unpublished ...