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1) Murder at the mission: a frontier killing, its legacy of lies, and the taking of the American West
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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...
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