Converting the West : a biography of Narcissa Whitman
by
 
Jeffrey, Julie Roy, author.

Title
: 
Converting the West : a biography of Narcissa Whitman

Author
: 
Jeffrey, Julie Roy, author.

Summary
: 
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

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Physical Description
: 
xvii, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Personal Subject
: 
Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847.

Subject Term
: 
Cayuse Indians
 
Missionaries -- Biography.
 
Women missionaries -- Biography.
 
Whitman Massacre, 1847.

Geographic Term
: 
Washington (State) -- Biography.

Publisher
: 
University of Oklahoma Press,

Publication Date
: 
1991

ISBN
: 
9780806123592
 
9780506126237

Publication Information
: 
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1991.

Call Number
: 
923 JEFFREY


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