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The Hudson's Bay Company's Archives Furnish No Support To The Whitman Saved Oregon Story WILLIAM I MARSHALL

The Hudson's Bay Company's Archives Furnish No Support To The Whitman Saved Oregon Story

WILLIAM I MARSHALL

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Publication: Press of The Blakely Printing Company, 1905, Chicago

9 1/4" x 6" grey colored printed wrappers. 36 pages plus covers. Marcus Whitman was an American physician and missionary. In 1836 Marcus, along with his wife, led an overland party by wagon to the West. Whitman and his wife Narcissa, along with Reverend Henry Spalding and his wife Eliza and William Gray, founded a mission at present day Walla Walla, Washington, in an effort to convert local Indians to Christianity. Late in the summer of 1847, just as a new group of emigrants arrived at the mission, a measles epidemic broke out. Both mission personnel, their families and the local Indians were sickened. Although several whites did die of the disease, Cayuse Indian populations were decimated. Following the deaths of a large number of Cayuse, some of the remaining Indians accused Marcus Whitman of murder, suggesting that he had administered poison and was a failed shaman. In retaliation, a group of Cayuse killed the Whitmans and twelve other settlers on November 29, 1847, an event that came to be known as the Whitman Massacre and an incident that began the Cayuse War. This is, "The very latest attempt to manufacture evidence to support the Whitman Legend, and the boldest and most foolish considering the ease with which its total falsity can be proved beyond any possibility of dispute, is the following: When the responsibility for it rests entirely on Rev. Newell D. Hillis, or should be divided between him adnd Rev. S.B. Penrose, president of Whitman College, the reader must decide for himself." Debunks Whitman saved Oregon Legend with extracts from letters and diaries of Rev. S. Parker, Dr. Whitman, Mrs. Whitman, Rev. H.H. Spalding, Mrs. Spalding, Rev. Cushing Eells, Mrs. Cushing Eels, Rev. E. Walker and Mrs. Elkanah Walker. "Brief as these extracts are, they prove beyond any possibility of dispute that the claims of the Whitmanites are pure fiction." Light bends to inside corners else a very clean copy.

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