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A Tepee in His Front Yard: A Biography of H. T. Cowley One of the
Four Founders of the City of Spokane, Washington.
In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses,
joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon
Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra
Eells rode on horseback from Missouri to Oregon, keeping diaries
throughout the months on the hazardous trail. After spending a
winter at the Whitman mission in present-day Washington, the
Walkers and Eellses moved north to do missionary work among the
Spokane Indians.
Throughout "On to Oregon" the presence of Myra Fairbanks Eells
is deeply felt, but it is Mary Richardson Walker who will be
remembered for perhaps the richest diary we have from a woman
pioneering in the West.
Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to
Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by
Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to
become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest for the
incessant bickering and petty jealousies that eventually caused the
deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and forced the abandonment of
the mission effort. Uncertainty and conflict as well as willpower
and endurance mark the story of the Oregon Mission and its
charismatic, though contentious, missionaries. Simply getting to
Oregon in the 1830s was a feat. Once they arrived, their efforts
were doomed by their inability to agree on strategies for
converting the Nez Perce and Spokane Indians. This Bison Books
edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, "the
weeping one" as the Indians remembered her. When read in
chronological sequence with the nearly one hundred letters written
by her husband, Asa, a compelling picture of their journey to
Oregon and subsequent life at the mission emerges. Other letters,
documents, and biographical sketches enhance the volume.
Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, went to Oregon as
missionaries in 1836, accompanied by the Reverend Henry Spalding
and his wife, Eliza. It was, as Narcissa wrote, "an unheard of
journey for females." Narcissa Whitman kept a diary during the long
trip from New York and continued to write about her rigorous and
amazing life at the Protestant mission near present-day Walla
Walla, Washington. Her words convey her complex humanity and
devotion to the Christian conversion and welfare of the Indians.
Clifford Drury sketches in the circumstances that, for the
Whitmans, resulted in tragedy. Eliza Spalding, equally devout and
also artistic, relates her experiences in a pioneering venture.
Drury also includes the diary of Mary Augusta Dix Gray and a
biographical sketch of Sarah Gilbert White Smith, later arrivals at
the Whitman mission.
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