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Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Doctor Marcus Whitman: missionary murdered by the Cayuse Indians in Oregon, November 29, 1847

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 202
Abstract

Manuscript essay regarding James Clark Stroup's personal acquaintance with Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman, and arguments in favor of the "Whitman saves Oregon" theory.

Dates: circa 1906-1920

Whitman Mission research scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss2929
Abstract

Scrapbook containing brochures, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, extracts from Narcissa Whitman's diary, and photographic postcards regarding the Whitman killings and the history of the Whitman Mission and the Cayuse Indians.

Dates: circa 1836-1966

Sketch of Whitman Mission

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5326
Abstract

Pencil sketch of the Whitman Mission, Waiilatpu, by Nancy Ann Osborn Jacobs, a survivor of the killings at the mission in 1847. The sketch depicts the mission buildings and the surrounding landscape.

Dates: circa 1847-1929