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Whitman Massacre

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Whitman Massacre
murder of missionary Marcus Whitman and family by Cayuse Indians (1847). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2972]
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When the Whitman Massacre occurred, settlers were more unnerved than even before.
He draws on primary and secondary documents, and fills in the gaps with his insights from having written of the Whitman massacre trial of 1850.
He was a direct descendant on his mother's side of Tabitha Brown, "Pioneer Mother of Oregon," and Catherine Sager Pringle, a survivor of the 1847 Whitman Massacre.
 
 
 
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