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Murder at the Mission

A Frontier Killing, its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American W est

ISBN-13: 9780525561682

Author(s): Blaine Harden

Subjects: HB, NH

Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP

Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books (usa)

Publication Date: 28-04-2022

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£16.99
Murder at the Mission

About the book

In 1847, the missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife, and 11 others were killed by members of the Cayuse tribe near present-day Walla Walla, Washington. A final response to years of frustration with the Whitmans, the event recorded in Western history as the 'Whitman Massacre' was a tipping point in American expansion, leading Congress to make the Oregon Country an official U.S. territory. Exposing the self-serving nature of American myth-making, Murder at the Mission reminds us of the dark realities of American expansion and of the lies that can persist when history is told only by victors.