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PBS

New Perspectives on the West: The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman

For Students 9th - 10th
A few pages from the journal of Narcissa Whitman who was a missionary in the Oregon Country. She was later murdered along with her husband at the Whitman massacre.
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University of Michigan

Transposed Tales of a French Missionary Among Indians in the Oregon Country

For Students 9th - 10th
The author of this article writes of how letters written by French missionaries describing their experiences in Oregon in the 1800s, were greatly revised for publication in France, so that the narratives took on far more positive tones....