Converting the West, Volume 3: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman BISAC-ART041000 Author: Doyle Shuler

Author: Doyle Shuler

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Converting the West, Volume 3: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman BISAC-ART041000 Author: Doyle ShulerNarcissa 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