Converting the West, Volume 3: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman

by Julie Roy Jeffrey

Book Overview

Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Narcissa grew up in western New York State, her values and attitudes carefully shaped by her mother. Very much a child of the Second Great Awakening, she eagerly embraced the burgeoning evangelical missionary movement. Following her marriage to Marcus Whitman, she spent most of 1836 traveling overland with him to Oregon. Narcissa enthusiastically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080612623X
• ISBN13: 9780806126234
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book

Julie Roy Jeffrey's achievement is a must for anyone interested in the history of the American frontier. It tells the tragic tale of a clash between two incompatible cultures and consequently highlights the complexity of the frontier experience. Here all notions of European conquest or Native American savagery are replaced by a reality of failed coexistence.