The Long Road to Oregon: The Whitman Mission

For the next episode of The Long Road to Oregon, we follow the story of the Whitman Mission—a place many emigrants passed through at the end of the trail, and where rising tension, disease, and cultural misunderstanding came to a breaking point in 1847.

This episode looks beyond a single version of the story, tracing what led to that moment and what followed—through firsthand accounts, historical context, and the realities of a region already deeply lived in.

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Sources:

https://www.nps.gov/whmi/learn/historyculture/index.htm

https://www.nps.gov/articles/whitman-mission.htm

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/whitman_massacre/

https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/cayuse_war/

https://www.historylink.org/file/5296

https://www.historylink.org/file/5297

https://www.britannica.com/event/Whitman-Massacre

https://www.loc.gov/item/2006679053/

https://www.loc.gov/collections/oregon-trail-miscellany/articles-and-essays/whitman-mission/

https://www.whitman.edu/whitman-mission-history

https://www.nps.gov/whmi/learn/historyculture/cayuse.htm

https://www.nps.gov/whmi/learn/historyculture/measles.htm

https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/whitman-massacre/

https://www.wsna.org/whitman-mission-history

https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/whitman-massacre

https://www.historylink.org/File/5192

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