[5] See p. 46.
[6] Dr. Cushing Eells's letter in archives of A. B. C. F. M., Boston.
[7] "The Legend of Whitman's Ride," by Prof. E. G. Bourne, American Historical Review, January, 1901.
[8] Dr. Whitman's route, as we have seen, in 1836.
[9] "Letter of John Zachrey," Senate Ex. Doc. No. 37, Forty-first Congress, Third Session.
[10] Letter file, office of Secretary of War, received June 22, 1844.
[11] Friends of Whitman have unfortunately exaggerated this Winter's ride; though a daring feat, it has many parallels in the annals of the old Salt Lake Trail, on which Jim Bridger built the fort that bore his name as early as 1837.
[12] The report of a worthy eyewitness of the Thirty-sixth Ohio.
[13] Whitman to Secretary Greene, Nov. 1, 1843; Mowry, Marcus Whitman, 267.