Methodist missionaries Dr. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman founded the Whitman Mission in 1836. One of the earliest Protestant mission settlements in the West along the Oregon Trail in the Oregon Territory, the mission would be the site of a measles epidemic in 1847 that led to the local Cayuse Indians attacking and killing the Whitmans and 11 others, and burning the mission.– By William Henry Jackson/Courtesy Scotts Bluff National Mon
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