Murder at the mission : a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West

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Murder at the mission : a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West

Title remainder

a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West

Statement of responsibility

Blaine Harden

Title variation

Frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West

Creator

• trueHarden, Blaine

Contributor

• Ward, Jeffrey L.

Author

• trueHarden, Blaine

Cartographer

• Ward, Jeffrey L.

Subject

• Cayuse Indians -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific
• trueChristian Missions
• trueColumbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century
• trueEuropean-Americans
• Indians of North America
• trueIndians of North America -- Relations with European-Americans
• trueIndians of North America -- Relations with missionaries, traders, etc
• trueIndigenous peoples of North America
• trueIndigenous peoples of North America -- Relations with European-Americans
• trueIndigenous peoples of North America -- Relations with missionaries, traders, etc
• trueIndigenous peoples relations with missionaries, traders, etc
• trueMartyrdom (Christianity)
• trueMass murder
• trueMassacres
• trueMissionaries
• Missionaries -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
• trueNez Perce (Nimíipuu) (North American people)
• Nez Perce Indians
• trueNez Perce Indians -- Relations with missionaries, traders, etc
• Nez Percé Indians -- Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century
• Nez Percé Indians -- Missions -- Northwest, Pacific
• Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
• trueOregon Territory
• truePacific Northwest -- History -- 19th Century
• truePioneers
• trueRace relations
• Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874
• trueThe West (United States)
• True crime stories
• Whitman Massacre, 1847
• Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847
• trueColonialism
• trueCayuse (North American people)
• trueCayuse Indians
• Cayuse Indians -- Columbia Plateau -- History -- 19th century
• Cayuse Indians -- Crimes against

Genre

• True crime stories

Language

eng

Summary

In 1847 Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were massacred by a group of Cayuse. The Cayuse were portrayed as murderous savages; five were executed. Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding had headed to Washington state and Idaho on the Oregon Trail with their wives; they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. As Spalding told it, after uncovering a British and Catholic plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States, Whitman undertook a heroic solo ride across the country to alert the President. In fact, he had traveled to Washington to save his own job. Harden exposes the hucksterism and self-interest at the root of American myth-making. -- adapted from jacket

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueDramatic

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed
• trueEngaging

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

979.5/030922

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F880

LC item number

.H266 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography