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9780803266131

On to Oregon

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803266131

  • ISBN10:

    0803266138

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

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Summary

In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses, joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra Eells rode on horseback from Missouri to Oregon, keeping diaries throughout the months on the hazardous trail. After spending a winter at the Whitman mission in present-day Washington, the Walkers and Eellses moved north to do missionary work among the Spokane Indians. ThroughoutOn to Oregonthe presence of Myra Fairbanks Eells is deeply felt, but it is Mary Richardson Walker who will be remembered for perhaps the richest diary we have from a woman pioneering in the West.

Author Biography

Clifford Merrill Drury, a clergyman and historian, edited Where Wagons Could Go: Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding, also available as a Bison Book. Mina Carson is an associate professor of history at Oregon State University and the author of Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885–1930.

Table of Contents

PERSONS AND PLACES MENTIONED IN THE TEXT 11(10)
MRS. ELKANAH WALKER THE DIARY OF MARY RICHARDSON WALKER 21(26)
The Early Life of Mary Richardson
24(2)
Volunteers to Go as a Missionary
26(5)
Enter Elkanah Walker
31(4)
A Forty-Eight Hour Courtship
35(3)
A Year's Interlude
38(4)
Married and on Their Way
42(5)
MRS. CUSHING EELLS MYRA FAIRBANKS EELLS 47(16)
Final Instructions
50(1)
New York to Pittsburgh
51(2)
Pittsburgh to Independence
53(5)
The Days of Final Preparation
58(5)
THE OVERLAND JOURNEY 63(62)
NINETEEN HUNDRED MILES ON A SIDE-SADDLE
63(8)
DIARIES OF MYRA EELLS AND MARY WALKER, APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1838
71(54)
Westport to the Rendezvous
71(24)
At the Rendezvous of 1838
95(7)
The Rendezvous to Waiilatpu
102(16)
Advice for Western Travelers
118(2)
Myra Eells-Forty Years in Oregon
120(5)
MRS. WALKER'S DIARY, SEPTEMBER 1838 TO JULY 1848 125(234)
THE DIARY
125(20)
1838-The Crowded Whitman Home at Waiilatpu
125(14)
1839-Move to the Spokane Country
139(15)
The Walker Home at Tshimakain
154(28)
1840-Housekeeping in the Wilderness
182(18)
1841-Dissension within the Mission
200(23)
1842-A Year of Transition
223(13)
Whitman Leaves for the East
236(6)
1843-A New and Bigger House
242(20)
1844-Labor and Trial
262(14)
1845-Rumblings of Discontent
276(13)
1846 -- Growing Sense of Futility
289(15)
1847 -- Massacre at Waiilatpu
304(24)
1848 -- Sanctuary at Fort Colville
328(17)
FAREWELL TO TSHIMAKAIN
345(14)
Fifty Years in the Willamette Valley
348(7)
Epilogue
355(4)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 359(4)
INDEX 363

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