Murder at the Mission by Blaine Harden (.ePUB)
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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden
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Overview: “Elucidating, captivating…Murder at the Mission is narrative history at its very best.” -Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder
“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” -Claudio Saunt, author of the National Book Award finalist Unworthy Republic
From New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a riveting and revealing account of one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West
In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert members of the Cayuse and Nez Perce tribes. Both would fail spectacularly as missionaries. But Spalding would succeed as a propagandist, inventing a story that recast his friend as a hero, and helped to fuel the massive westward migration that would eventually lead to the devastation of those they had purportedly set out to save.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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