On Sidesaddles to Heaven: The Women of the Rocky Mountain Mission

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Caxton Press, 1998 - 256 pages
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?

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Contents

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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