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This art print is made from an historical photo of an unidentified Yakima man taken by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter

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Lucullus Virgil McWhorter was born on the upper waters of the Monongahela River in Harrison County Virginia (later West Virginia) on January 29, 1860. He was one of twelve children.

In the course of his life Lucullus V. McWhorter became a strong ally and supporter of various Indian tribes, sympathizing with their resentment over the often bad treatment handed out to them by early white settlers and later by the military and Federal bureaucracy.

In 1881, McWhorter traveled through the coastal regions of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Eventually, he saw his first Indians in Oklahoma, where he nearly encountered Chief Joseph and the exiled Nez Perces.

Lucullus McWhorter moved to the Yakima River Valley in Washington State in 1903. It was there that his involvement with Indian history and culture matured and continued throughout the remainder of his life. He took a special interest in the Nez Perce and Yakima tribes and was made an honary member of the Yakima tribe on June 9, 1909 and was given the indian name of Big Foot.

In 1907 he moved to Okanogan, Washington, and opened a photography studio. Images from the McWhorter Collection provide visual documentation of the Nez Perce and Yakima Indians. Lucullus V. McWhorter assembled an impressive collection of images, including portraits and images of battle grounds, to illustrate his books and pamphlets concerning the plight of Native Americans.

McWorter befriended Nez Perce War veteran Yellow Wolf in October of 1907. Yellow Wolf helped McWhorter in his investigation of the 1877 Nez Perce War and the Nez Perces in general.

McWhorter worked diligently to acquire and appraise primary and secondary sources. He recorded first-hand Indian oral testimony, maintained an extensive correspondence, and made direct assessments of battle-sites in an effort to establish an accurate and comprehensive account of the 1877 conflict between the Nez Perces and the Federal government. Significantly, his research also included interviews with survivors from the armies of generals Howard, Sturgis, Gibbon, and Miles.

Working with Yellow Wolf, and by utilizing the extensive mass of material (including photographs) he had gathered during years of research, McWhorter published Yellow Wolf: His Own Story in 1940. After his death in 1944, Mrs. Ruth Bordin and Professor Herman Deutsch edited and completed McWhorter's larger account of the 1877 Nez Perce War. The manuscript material known as the "Field History" was first published as i>Hear Me, My Chiefs! in 1952.

McWhorter's varied if sometimes confusing documentation of the 1877 Nez Perce War and of Pacific Northwest Indian cultural practices constitutes a significant body of primary source material. His published work is considered essential to understanding Nez Perce history.

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter died at the age of 84 in Prosser, Washington, on October 10, 1944.