Where Wagons Could Go: Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spaulding

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Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, went to Oregon as missionaries in 1836, accompanied by the Reverend Henry Spalding and his wife, Eliza. It was once, as Narcissa wrote, “an unheard of journey for females.”
 
Narcissa Whitman kept a diary all over the long go back and forth from New York and continued to put in writing about her rigorous and amazing life on the Protestant mission close to present-day Walla Walla, Washington. Her words convey her complex humanity and devotion to the Christian conversion and welfare of the Indians. Clifford Drury sketches within the circumstances that, for the Whitmans, led to tragedy.
 
Eliza Spalding, similarly devout and likewise artistic, relates her experiences in a pioneering venture. Drury also includes the diary of Mary Augusta Dix Gray and a biographical sketch of Sarah Gilbert White Smith, later arrivals on the Whitman mission.

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