On Sidesaddles to Heaven: The Women of the Rocky Mountain MissionCaxton Press, 1998 - 256 Seiten Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Laurie Winn Carlson analyzes the lives of the first six white women—missionary wives—to cross the Rocky Mountains, offering a fresh and sometimes startling view of these pioneers. At a time when a woman's fortune and future was tied to the man she married, four of the six women married virtual strangers, on short notice, with no financial security. Why did they take such a gamble? |
Inhalt
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Drawing of Flathead Indian | 25 |
Chapter Four A Marriage of Convenience | 35 |
Reverend Henry Spalding | 38 |
Reverend Samuel Parker | 48 |
Fort Boise | 62 |
Cushing Eells | 125 |
Indian Country Passport | 131 |
Chapter Eleven Full House | 137 |
Whitman Mission | 141 |
Chapter Twelve Personal Problems | 151 |
Chapter Thirteen First Born | 165 |
Spaldings Nez Perce Book | 169 |
Griffin | 183 |
Chapter Six Rendezvous | 63 |
Mary Richardson Walkers Trunk | 69 |
Chapter Seven This Adventurous Journey | 77 |
Fort Walla Walla | 89 |
Chapter Eight This Desirable Spot | 93 |
McLoughlin Home Fort Vancouver | 95 |
Chapter Nine Marys Choice | 109 |
Elkanah Walker | 115 |
Chapter Ten Second Wave | 123 |
Chapter Fifteen Slavery | 189 |
Chapter Seventeen Death at Waiilatpu | 219 |
Abigail Walker | 226 |
Amelia Lorene Spalding Brown | 236 |
Chapter Eighteen End of the Dream | 237 |
Whitman Burial Site | 244 |
About the Author | 253 |
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Alice Clarissa arrived baby began buffalo camp caravan Cayuses Christian church clothing Columbia River Colville Cushing diary dress Drury Eells Eliza Spalding Elkanah emigrants felt female Fort Colville Fort Vancouver Fort Walla Walla fur company fur trade girl heathen Henry Spalding hired horseback horses Hudson's Bay Company husband Ibid Indians infant journey knew labor land Lapwai letter living Marcus Whitman married Mary Richardson Walker Mary Walker McKee McLoughlin milk mission station missionaries mother Myra Narcissa Prentiss Narcissa Whitman Narcissa wrote natives needed Nez Perces night Notes on Chapter Oregon Oregon mission Pambrun party rendezvous riding Rocky Mountains rode Sarah sent settle sidesaddle sionary slaves Smith Spokane stay teach thought tion took trappers tribes trip Tshimikain Vancouver wagon Waiilatpu Walla Walla wanted West White Women wife Willamette Valley William Gray winter wives woman young
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Seite 10 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole; Till, o'er our ransomed nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Seite 10 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile ; In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown ; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
Seite 11 - Sharon there. 2. He'll shield you with a wall of fire, With flaming zeal your breasts inspire, Bid raging winds their fury cease, And hush the tempest into peace. 3. And when our labors all are o'er, Then we shall meet to part no more, — Meet with the blood-bought throng, to fall, And crown our Jesus — Lord of all ! PSALM l U/D1.
Seite 11 - Immanuel's name ; To distant climes the tidings bear, And plant the rose of Sharon there. 2 He'll shield you with a wall of fire, With holy zeal your hearts inspire, Bid raging winds their fury cease, And calm the savage breast to peace.
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