The mother of women's migration West was a beautiful, golden-haired missionary with a lovely soprano voice, but a heart that could never learn to love the “heathens” she came to save. She'd die a martyr's death and her grave would be molested by wolves—a horrible end to a woman who has a prime place in western history.
Narcissa Whitman—namesake for Whitman College that stands on the site of her mission home in Oregon—came west to do missionary work with her husband, Marcus, in 1836.
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