28. Narcissa and Marcus Whitman

Our first couple! How sweet! Marcus and Narcissa travel from New York to The Pacific Northwest on a mission to turn the indigenous peoples there convert to Christianity! What could possibly go wrong?

 

Sourcing

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

The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman 1836-1847

New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American StoryBrave Hearted: The Women of the American West

Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West