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Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Life at Whitman Mission
 
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Help from Hawaii
The American Board's new missions in the Oregon Country received help from the older, more established sister missions in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). This assistance came in the form of sheep, helpers, and a printing press.

 
 
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Agriculture at the mission was critical to the Whitmans' survival. Asa Smith described work being done in 1838.
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Read more about the Whitmans
Clifford Drury wrote a very detailed and extensively documented 2-volume book about the Whitmans.
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Copper Creek Valley.  

Did You Know?
The mid-elevation Sierra coniferous forest supports a remarkable diversity of tree species. Here ponderosa pine, incense-cedar, white fir, sugar pine, and scattered groves of giant sequoia intermix, forming one of the most extensive stands of old-growth coniferous forest remaining in the world.
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