It is a challenging task to pick one favorite article in the sixty-plus-year history of our journal, Ethnohistory. I’m particularly handicapped because I have a complete run of the journal in all its vicissitudes from a pamphlet of the Ohio Valley Historical Conference, spearheaded at Indiana University by our founding mother, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, to later incarnations of the journal emanating from Tempe, Arizona, and Texas Tech in Lubbock. Members of the American Society for Ethnohistory can take pride in both the attractive format and high-quality content of the journal now published by Duke University Press. We owe belated thanks to our former secretary-treasurer, William Autry, for successfully negotiating the present arrangement with Duke.
I was given copies of the first ten volumes of the journal by my late friend and colleague at the University of Washington, Edward B. Harper. Ed was always quick to jump on new bandwagons but...
