Whitman's ride through savage lands : with sketches of Indian life /
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| Author / Creator: | Nixon, Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson), 1825-1905. |
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| Imprint: | [Chicago] : The Winona Publishing Company, 1905. |
| Description: | [4], 186 pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (plates), portraits ; 20 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3181367 |
Table of Contents:
- Lewis and Clark Centenary Exposition in Portland ; The great captains ; Their guides, Chabonneau and Sacajawea (The Bird- Woman)
- Visit of the Flathead Indian chiefs to St. Louis ; Is the story authentic? ; Incidents ; Death of two chiefs ; The banquet speech ; Sketches of Indian life
- Effect of the banquet speech ; How it moved Christian people ; The American Board sends Drs. Parker and Whitman to investigate ; Whitman's Indian boys ; His marriage and second journey
- Old click-click-clackety-clackety, the historic wagon ; Camping and Incidents, and the end of the journey
- Homecoming ; The beginning of missionary ; Clarissa ; The Little White Cayuse Queen ; Her death ; Sketches of daily events
- Brief sketch of discovery and history of the Oregon Country ; Who owned ; By what title ; The various treaties ; The final contest
- Why the United States dickered with England for half a century before asserting her rights ; American statesmen had a small appreciation of the value of Oregon, and were opposed to expansion
- Conditions of Oregon in 1842 ; The arrival of American immigrants at Whitman's Mission ;The news they brought ; Whitman's great winter ride to Washington ; Incidents of the journey ; Reaches the Capital
- Whitman in Washington ; His conference with President Tyler, Secretary Webster, and Secretary of War Porter ; Visits Greeley in New York, and the American Board ; Rests, and returns to the Frontier
- Whitman joins the great emigrating column ; News of its safe arrival in Oregon reaches Washington in 1844 ; Its effect upon the people, and Oregon's importance acknowledged ; The political contest ; The massacre at Waiilatpuan
- Memorials to Whitman ; Why delayed ; Why history was not sooner written ; Whitman College the grand monument.