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

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

Harden, Blaine, (author.). Ward, Jeffrey L., (cartographer.).

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  • ISBN: 9780525561668
  • ISBN: 0525561668
  • Physical Description: xxxi, 432 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: [New York] : Viking, [2021]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-416) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The good doctor -- Act one: Kill. "Do nothing to irritate" ; "What a delightful place" ; Cayuses in the kitchen ; "Want of Christian feeling" ; "A thousand little harassing events" ; "Beastly & savage brutalities" -- Act two: Hang. "Priests wet with the blood" ; A proper trial ; Five at once ; "Seeing that they stood alone" -- Act three: Lie. Authentic account ; Collaborate ; Brother Spalding goes to Washington ; The old college life -- Act four: Expose. Skulls, bones, money ; "A defenseless little Western institution" ; Mephistopheles and the original sources ; Lost cause -- Act five: Revive. Predators ; Broke ; White people's money -- Epilogue.

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Subject: Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874.
Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Cayuse Indians > Missions > Northwest, Pacific.
Cayuse Indians > Crimes against.
Cayuse Indians > Columbia Plateau > History > 19th century.
Nez Percé Indians > Missions > Northwest, Pacific.
Nez Percé Indians > Columbia Plateau > History > 19th century.
Missionaries > Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Northwest, Pacific > History > 19th century.
Columbia Plateau > History > 19th century.
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874.
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Cayuse Indians.
Cayuse Indians > Missions.
Missionaries.
Nez Percé Indians.
Nez Percé Indians > Missions.
Pacific Northwest.
United States > Columbia Plateau.
Genre: History.

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5050 . ‡aIntroduction: The good doctor -- Act one: Kill. "Do nothing to irritate" ; "What a delightful place" ; Cayuses in the kitchen ; "Want of Christian feeling" ; "A thousand little harassing events" ; "Beastly & savage brutalities" -- Act two: Hang. "Priests wet with the blood" ; A proper trial ; Five at once ; "Seeing that they stood alone" -- Act three: Lie. Authentic account ; Collaborate ; Brother Spalding goes to Washington ; The old college life -- Act four: Expose. Skulls, bones, money ; "A defenseless little Western institution" ; Mephistopheles and the original sources ; Lost cause -- Act five: Revive. Predators ; Broke ; White people's money -- Epilogue.
520 . ‡a"The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries. But Spalding would succeed as a propagandist, inventing a story that recast his friend as a hero, and helped to fuel the massive westward migration that would eventually lead to the devastation of those they had purportedly set out to save. 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. Soon after his return, Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were massacred by a group of Cayuse. Though they had ample reason--Whitman supported the explosion of white migration that was encroaching on their territory, and seemed to blame for a deadly measles outbreak--the Cayuse were portrayed as murderous savages. Five were executed. This fascinating, impeccably researched narrative traces the ripple effect of these events across the century that followed. While the Cayuse eventually lost the vast majority of their territory, thanks to the efforts of Spalding and others who turned the story to their own purposes, Whitman was celebrated well into the middle of the 20th century for having "saved Oregon." Accounts of his heroic exploits appeared in congressional documents, The New York Times, and Life magazine, and became a central founding myth of the Pacific Northwest. Exposing the hucksterism and self-interest at the root of American myth-making, Murder at the Mission reminds us of the cost of American expansion, and of the problems that can arise when history is told only by the victors"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
520 . ‡aIn 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
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