[209] Grande Ronde valley, for which see our volume xxi, p. 271, note 69.—Ed.
[210] The passage of the Blue Mountains was one of the difficult portions of the Oregon Trail. Compare our volume xxi, pp. 272-276; also Mrs. Whitman's "Journal," in Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions, 1891, pp. 55-57.—Ed.
[211] For the Walla Walla River see our volume vi, p. 338, note 142.—Ed.
[212] For the Cayuse (Skyuse) Indians see Ross's Oregon Settlers in our volume vii, p. 137, note 37.—Ed.
[213] For a brief description of Fort Walla Walla see our volume xxi, p. 278, note 73.—Ed.
[214] The Whitman mission station was on the north bank of the Walla Walla, six miles west of the present city of that name. The place was called by its Indian name Waiilatpu. See Mrs. Whitman's description of the site in Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions, 1891, pp. 88-90; she gives a plan of the new house on pp. 136, 137. For a brief sketch of Dr. Marcus Whitman, see our volume xxi p. 352, note 125.—Ed.
[215] The mission of the American Board at the Sandwich Islands decided (1839) to present to the Oregon mission their printing press and its appurtenances, they having recently received a new outfit from the United States. This press, which had then seen twenty years' service in Hawaii, was placed on board of the annual vessel to the Columbia, and in process of time reached Dr. Whitman's station; thence it was transferred to Lapwai, where it continued in use, printing native texts, etc., during the existence of the mission. The press was advertised for sale in 1860, but there being no customer, Mrs. Spaulding presented it to the state as an historical relic. It has found a home in the state house at Salem. See Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions, 1889, p. 94. With the press came Edwin O. Hall, an American printer, who had been employed some time in the Sandwich Islands, and desired to leave because of the impaired condition of his wife's health. He remained at the Oregon mission until the next year, when he returned to the Islands, subsequently returning to the Eastern states where he died about 1887. (See Mrs. Whitman's "Journal," in Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions, 1891, p. 137.)
For Asahel Munger see ante, p. [275], note 161.—Ed.
[216] For Narcissa Prentice Whitman see our volume xxi, p. 355, note 128.—Ed.
[217] See Mrs. Whitman's own account of the loss of this daughter, Alice Clarissa, in Oregon Pioneer Association Transactions, 1891, pp. 120-126.—Ed.