Narcissa Whitman (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeanette Eaton
- First Published: 1941
- Time of Work: 1830–1848
- Setting: Oregon and the Oregon Trail from the East Coast to the West Coast
- Principal Characters: Narcissa Whitman, Marcus Whitman, Alice Clarissa Whitman, Henry Spalding, Eliza Spalding, Chief Tiloukaikt, Chief Tomahas, Joe Lewis, John
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Biracial people, Missions or missionaries, Religion, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Pacific Northwest, Massacres, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Oregon Trail, Oregon
- Locales: Oregon Trail
Form and Content
Jeanette Eaton’s Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer of Oregon is a historically accurate adventure narrative of the settling of Oregon, as well as an anthropological study of the Native Americans inhabiting the Oregon Territory in the mid-1800’s, specifically the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. The Whitman mission settlement, called Waiilatpu, became a trading post serving settlers who journeyed to claim the 640 acres promised by the United States government. By 1845, emigrants found a shortcut through the Cascade mountains and no longer needed Whitman’s...
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