The book carries with it a conviction of the worth of the best things, that is most healthy. It teaches important lessons concerning missionary helpfulness, that the reader accepts without being aware of the author's purpose.
A nation to have the lion's heart must be fed on lion's food. The story of Dr. Whitman is such food as may well nourish the lion heart in all youth, and develop in our American homes the noblest and most attractive Christian virtues.
James G. K. McClure.
Lake Forest, Illinois.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| The Lewis and Clark Centenary Exposition in Portland—The Great Captains—Their Guides, Chabonneau and Sacajawea (The Bird-Woman) | [13] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The 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 | [22] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The 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 | [36] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Old Click-Click-Clackety-Clackety, the Historic Wagon—Camping and Incidents, and the End of the Journey | [61] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| The Home-coming—The Beginning of Missionary Life—Clarissa—The Little White Cayuse Queen—Her Death—Sketches of Daily Events | [74] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Brief Sketch of Discovery and History of the Oregon Country—Who Owned—By What Title—The Various Treaties—The Final Contest | [89] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| 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 | [96] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The 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 | [104] |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| 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 | [129] |
| CHAPTER X | |
| 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 | [148] |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| The Memorials to Whitman—Why Delayed—Why History was not Sooner Written—Whitman College the Grand Monument | [172] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| Oliver Woodson Nixon | [Frontispiece] |
| Sacajawea (the Bird-Woman) | [16] |
| Cascades of the Columbia (B. H. Gifford, Photo.) | [22] |
| Strange Visitors in Old St. Louis | [28] |
| An Indian Welcome | [40] |
| Pacific Springs, July 4, 1835 | [57] |
| The Toilsome Trail to Oregon | [64] |
| Mt. Tacoma, from Longmire Springs (the home of Nekahni) | [80] |
| Lake Chelan, First View of the Snowy Peaks | [100] |
| Lost in the Rockies | [118] |
| Whitman Crossing Grand River | [132] |
| Marmaduke Island (B. H. Gifford, Photo.) | [140] |
| The Assassination of Dr. Whitman | [152] |
| Dr. D. K. Pearsons | [164] |
| Memorial Hall, Whitman College | [176] |
| Young Men's Dormitory, Whitman College | [176] |
| Rev. S. B. L. Penrose, President of Whitman College | [182] |