Marcus Whitman and the Early Days of Oregon (Classic Reprint)
(Topsy. It was not bom; it grew. It grew because it could ...)
Topsy. It was not bom; it grew. It grew because it could not help growing. More than twenty-five years ago I first learned of the heroic labors and the tragic death of Dr. Marcus Whitman, I was at that time making a careful and critical study of the early history of The Oregon Country, and was especially interested in our controversy with Great Britain concerning it. Having completed my study of the negotiations between the two governments which ended in the treaty of 1846, I turned my attention to the story of Dr. Whitman. I was soon confronted with those who refused to credit the accounts of his patriotic heroism, and who did not believe that he was entitled to foremost recognition as the savior of Oregon to the United States. I determined to go to the bottom of the question, and for a little more than twenty years I have pursued these investigations and have read everything I could lay my hands upon relating to the subject. I have visited Oregon, Washington, and California, stood before the great grave where Whitman was buried, and walked the halls of Whitman College in Walla Walla. I have talked with many leading men of that country, Dr. Cushing Eells; Mr. William H. Gray, author of a history of Oregon, with whom I visited the rooms of the American Board, inspecting their archives and reading and copying letters to and from Whitman, Spalding, Eells, Walker, Gray, and others, covering the entire period from 1836 to 1848; Dr.
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