Abstract Journal extracts, reports, correspondence, and financial documents of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.M.) concerning its missionary operations in the Oregon Territory. Includes materials relating to discussion by Hawaii missionary Jonathan S. Green and others on the feasibility of having a mission in the Pacific Northwest; and correspondence of missionaries Marcus Whitman, Henry H. Spalding, Cushing Eells, Elkanah Walker, William H. Gray, and A.B.C.F.M....

Abstract Papers of and relating to Presbyterian missionaries Marcus Whitman (1802-1847) and Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847), including their correspondence, documents and recollections relating to their murder and the aftermath, and ephemera related to their memorialization. The Whitmans established a mission in 1836 at Waiilatpu near Walla Walla in the part of the Oregon Territory that would later become Washington state, with the goal of converting the local Cayuse people. The Whitmans' relations with...