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Murder at the Mission : A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden (2021, Hardcover)

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In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries. But Spalding would succeed as a propagandist, inventing a story that recast his friend as a hero, and helped to fuel the massive westward migration that would eventually lead to the devastation of those they had purportedly set out to save. As Spalding told it, after uncovering a British and Catholic plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States, Whitman undertook a heroic solo ride across the country to alert the.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100525561668

ISBN-139780525561668

eBay Product ID (ePID)12049029144

Product Key Features

Book TitleMurder at the Mission : a Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Native American

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorBlaine Harden

FormatHardcover