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Description:
Marcus Whitman pleading for Oregon before President Tyler and Secretary
Webster. [Plate from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon by Oliver W. Nixon, p.
128a.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory--Missions., Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8119
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Description:
Massacre of Rev. Dr. Whitman of the Presbyterian Mission. An Artist's
Conception of the Murder of Dr. Marcus Whitman. Illustration from Clifford M.
Drury's Marcus Whitman, M.D. [Original plate from a wood-engraving by N. Orr
& Co. Plate originally published in Frances Fuller Victor's (1826-1902)
biography of Joe Meek, The River of the West, published ca. 1870. Reprinted
in Clifford Merrill Drury's (1897-1984) Marcus Whitman, M.D.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Death and burial., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8052
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Description:
Marcus Whitman leaving home on his winter ride to save Oregon. [Plate from
How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon, by Oliver W. Nixon.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8049
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Description:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide July 4, 1836. "They raised the flag, read
a chapter from God's Word and took possession of the land for Christ and for
the Church" [Illustration of Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Henry
Harmon Spalding, Eliza Hart Spalding, and William H. Gray on their journey
west.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Oregon Mission., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7649
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Description:
This is to certify that Doct. Marcus Whitman is an assistant missionary to
Indian tribes West of the State of Missouri under the direction of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. [Signed] R. Anderson
and David Green. [Replica of John P. Hartman's pen and ink drawing of Marcus
Whitman's missionary commission certificate from the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Feb. 17, 1835.]
Subject names:
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7580
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Description:
[Map of Oregon Mission, from A Brief Requesting Assistance in the Restoration
of the Grounds and Reconstruction of the Buildings of the Waiilatpu Mission
on the Centenary of its Founding, 1836-1936.]
Subject names:
Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)--Maps., Whitman Centennial Celebration (1936 : Walla Walla, Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7495
