Murder at the mission : a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West
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Author
Contributors
Ward, Jeffrey L. cartographer.
Published
[New York] : Viking, [2021].
Format
Book
Status
Forks - Nonfiction (Adult)
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LC Subjects
Cayuse Indians -- Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century.
Cayuse Indians -- Crimes against.
Cayuse Indians -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific.
Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century.
Missionaries -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century.
Nez Percé Indians -- Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century.
Nez Percé Indians -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific.
Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century.
Spalding, Henry Harmon, -- 1803-1874
Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Whitman, Marcus, -- 1802-1847.
Cayuse Indians -- Crimes against.
Cayuse Indians -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific.
Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century.
Missionaries -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century.
Nez Percé Indians -- Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century.
Nez Percé Indians -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific.
Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century.
Spalding, Henry Harmon, -- 1803-1874
Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Whitman, Marcus, -- 1802-1847.
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Published
[New York] : Viking, [2021].
Physical Desc
xxxi, 432 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
UPC
40030495215
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [409]-416) and index.
Description
In 1847 Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were massacred by a group of Cayuse. The Cayuse were portrayed as murderous savages; five were executed. Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding had headed to Washington state and Idaho on the Oregon Trail with their wives; they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. As Spalding told it, after uncovering a British and Catholic plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States, Whitman undertook a heroic solo ride across the country to alert the President. In fact, he had traveled to Washington to save his own job. Harden exposes the hucksterism and self-interest at the root of American myth-making. -- adapted from jacket