A collection connecting Western history, Nez Perce accounts, and Wallowa County.
Joseph and the surrounding valley, with Wallowa Lake and the mountains beyond. Community context for this record.
Sam Beebe · 2007-07-08 · CC BY 2.0 · Image & source ↗The library provides routes into a Wallowa County history collection, multimedia Nez Perce archives, and audio and visual material. It is located at the Josephy Center.
Its published recordings include local presentations and interviews. Recordings linked by this atlas remain with their original host unless separate permission to republish is obtained.
“[O]ur Wallowa Country is a living history museum threaded to past and future in an increasingly seamless cloth.”
The Nez Perce people never stopped knowing this valley as home. Photographs of families coming back to fish in the 1930s, the Tribe’s biologists on the Lostine River today, and a plan that looks a hundred years ahead tell the story of return in pieces. The people it belongs to should tell the rest.
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In 1899 you could join the Enterprise library by handing over a used book. A Grange brunch in Lostine, a writers’ gathering at Wallowa Lake and four file drawers of one woman’s papers finish the story.
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In 1995, the court papers from an 1888 murder trial turned up in a Wallowa County safe. Every record in this county was kept by someone, and every silence has a story too.
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