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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
m a physician, Marcus Whitman. Parker wrote A journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains (1838), one of the valuable books of the period. Whitman became so deeply interested in the religious welfare of the Indians that he turned missionary and established a working centre at Waiilatpu. Later, in the winter of 1842-43, he made the now much discussed overland journey by the southern route to Washington. This adventure is recorded in How Marcus Whitman saved Oregon (1895) by O. W. Nixon. Whitman is said to have exposed nefarious British designs to the American government, but this service has been disputed on good authority. W. I. Marshall is one of those who oppose the saviour idea, and he presents his views in the Report of the American historical Association (1900) and also in Acquisition of Oregon, and the long suppressed evidence about Marcus Whitman (1911). At any rate, Whitman was a splendid character and devoted his life to work among the Indians, who, imaginin
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
colonial documents, 175 New York idea, the, 276, 294 New York quarterly, the, 304 New York Review, the, 450 New York (University), 180, 461 New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, 578 New Yorker Yiddische Folkszeitung, 602 Nicaragua, 136 Nicolay, J. G., 182, 311 Nies, Konrad, 581 Nietzsche, 583 Nigger, the, 267, 293, 296 Night thoughts, 443, 538, 595 Nile notes of a Howadji, the, I 14, 163 Niles, Hezekiah, 438 Nina Gordon, 71 n. Niniveh und Andre Gedichte, 581 Nixon, O. W., 137 No love lost, 79 No power to conquer foreign Nations 364 Nordhoff, Charles, 352 Nord und Sud, 579 Normal schools, 408 Norris, Frank, 67, 92, 93-94 North American Indian Portfolio, 149 North American Review, 5, 102, 165, 188, 196, 199, 234, 301, 302, 303, 452, 481, 488 North Americans of Yesterday, the, 150 North Carolina (University), 184 North Pole, the, 170 Northward over the great ice, 170 Norton, Andrews, 458, 488 Norton, Charles Eliot, 92, 115, 116-18, 3