Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman
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Code: 05645
Price: $19.95 Author:
Julie Roy Jeffrey ISBN:
080612623X
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$16.96 Features:
Paperback. 1991. 238 pp. 14 black and white photos, maps, sources, and index. 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.5 in.
This book is a biography of Narcissa Whitman, who was, with her husband, a pioneer missionary to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Traveling overland in 1836, she spent the next 11 years in Oregon, at first among the "benighted" Indians, and then among the growing number of white settlers.
