Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman

Jeffrey, Julie Roy

ISBN 10: 0806123591 / ISBN 13: 9780806123592

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1991

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8vo, 238 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 100812

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806123591
• ISBN 13: 9780806123592
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana

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Synopsis

Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneering missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. In this biography, the author traces her motivations and relationships, as well as the circumstances that led to her death at the hands of members of the Cayuse tribe. Annotation copyrig

About the Author

Julie Roy Jeffrey is Elizabeth Connelly Todd Professor History in Goucher College. She is the author of Education for Children of the Poor: The Elementary Education Act of 1965 and Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 and coauthor of The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society.