Text is clean. Cover and dust jacket show almost no wear. States First Edition. ; [American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd Ed, [United States, 1815-1877, Women and the Frontier] - 42. 463].

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Title: Converting The West A Biography of Narcissa Whitman
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0806123591
ISBN 13: 9780806123592
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneering missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. In this biography, the author traces her motivations and relationships, as well as the circumstances that led to her death at the hands of members of the Cayuse tribe. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Since her brutal killing in an 1847 massacre of whites by Cayuse Indians, Narcissa Whitman has donned the mantle of heroine and martyr. Sent west from New York in 1836 by an evangelical group, newlyweds Narcissa and Marcus Whitman founded the Waiilatpu mission near present-day Walla Walla, Wash., and set about converting the Cayuse to Christianity, with scant success. In this unsympathetic treatment, Jeffrey ( Frontier Woman ) faults Narcissa's esteemed role in history and, on flimsy evidence, blames in part her haughtiness and ineptitude for the massacre. The Narcissa met in this arguable, revisionist portrait is a dependent mama's girl who romanticized her calling and, flawed by narrow thinking, proved ill-suited for missionary work. Illustrated.
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