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Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old Oregon by Clifford M. Drury
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Chapter 10: Waiilatpu, 1836–1837 (pdf 2.0 mb)
Mission site selected; Spalding selects Lapwai; Women return to Walla Walla; First house at Waiilatpu; Food supplies; Gray returns to the States; Agriculture and evangelization begin at Waiilatpu; Three Cayuse chiefs; Alice Clarissa born; Trials and triumphs.
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Chapter 12: Jason Lee And Oregon Colonization (pdf 1.7 mb)
Lieutenant Slacum visits Oregon; Boundary issue; Methodist reenforcements; Lee leaves for New York; Whitman and Spalding ask for more missionaries; Methodists receive a government subsidy; The Lausanne reenforcement; Reaction of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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Chapter 16: The Mission in Crisis, 1841–1842 (pdf 709 kb)
Red River migration; War, diplomacy, or emigration; Whitman’s life threatened; More dissention in the mission; American Board dismisses Spalding; Roman Catholic activities; Elijah White and the 1842 emigration; Gray resigns; Whitman leaves for the East.
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Chapter 19: “WESTWARD Ho!” 1843 . . . (pdf 2.9 mb)
Whitman’s visit with relatives; Perrin Whitman; “My plans require time and distance”; Emigrants gather; “Travel, travel, travel”; Opening the wagon road to the Columbia; An appraisal of Whitman’s ride; Reaction of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
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Chapter 20: A Changing Oregon, 1843–1846 (pdf 2.7 mb)
Narcissa sick and discouraged; Continued activities at Waiilatpu; More native converts; Indians becoming uneasy; 1844–1845; Arrival of the Sager orphans; Gospel of Matthew in Nez Perce; 1845–1846; Emigration of 1845; Andrew Rodgers; Reminiscences of the Sager girls; Whitman considers leaving Waiilatpu; Visit of Tom Hill; International boundary settled.
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Chapter 23: Congress Establishes Oregon as a Territory (pdf 1.3 mb)
Hudson’s Bay Company acts promptly; Experiences of the captives; Ogden secures their release; Lapwai Mission abandoned; Discovery of Stanley’s portraits; In pursuit of the murderers; Waiilatpu burned; Joe Meek goes east; End of the Oregon Mission; Territorial status.
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Chapter 24: Epilogue (pdf 1.0 mb)
Apprehension of five alleged murderers; Their trial and execution; Waiilatpu inventory; Monuments, memorials, and anniversary occasions; Mystery of the skulls; Whitman literature; Whitman Mission National Historic Site; Continuing First Presbyterian Church of Oregon; I Baptize You Marcus Whitman.
Images for Chapter 24 (pdf 793 kb)
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Did You Know?
Golden Gate National Parks participates in the National Park Service Passport Program. Here in our park, we have 9 different cancellation stamps available at Alcatraz, Muir Woods NM, Marin Headlands, Fort Point NHS, Presidio, Fort Mason, Cliff House, Crissy Field Center and Fort Funston.
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