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

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.