Missionaries
Subject
Subject Source: archiveswest
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1203
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...
Dates:
1834-1947; Majority of material found within 1834-1850
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