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FROM THE JACKET:
"Narcissa Whitman forsakes her life at a fashionable eastern girls' school for a honeymoon in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest with her medical missionary husband, Marcus.
The tale begins with the Whitmans' marriage in 1836 in the village of Angelica, New York. Soon they are aboard a covered wagon bouncing their way toward the Oregon Territory.
This is a story of courage--the courage of two people fighting misunderstanding, resentment and ancient Indian tribal rites, as well as nature's rigors, to bring Christianity to the Indians of the far West.
At first friendly, the Indians are soon made resentful by the increasing flow of settlers into the rich Willamette Valley. Resentment turns to hostility and hostility flares into a climax of violence and treachery with the Indian uprising of 1847.
It is Marcus Whitman, a doctor and a missionary, who is credited by leading settlers of the Pacific Northwest with encouraging [sic] and sustaining the great migration of 1843--a migration that virtually assured that Oregon would be part of the United States.
Thus Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were not only missionaries but also patriots, struggling to bring Christianity to the Northwest Indians and fighting to bring Americans to the Northwest."
FROM THE JACKET:
"Narcissa Whitman forsakes her life at a fashionable eastern girls' school for a honeymoon in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest with her medical missionary husband, Marcus.
The tale begins with the Whitmans' marriage in 1836 in the village of Angelica, New York. Soon they are aboard a covered wagon bouncing their way toward the Oregon Territory.
This is a story of courage--the courage of two people fighting misunderstanding, resentment and ancient Indian tribal rites, as well as nature's rigors, to bring Christianity to the Indians of the far West.
At first friendly, the Indians are soon made resentful by the increasing flow of settlers into the rich Willamette Valley. Resentment turns to hostility and hostility flares into a climax of violence and treachery with the Indian uprising of 1847.
It is Marcus Whitman, a doctor and a missionary, who is credited by leading settlers of the Pacific Northwest with encouraging [sic] and sustaining the great migration of 1843--a migration that virtually assured that Oregon would be part of the United States.
Thus Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were not only missionaries but also patriots, struggling to bring Christianity to the Northwest Indians and fighting to bring Americans to the Northwest."
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