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Across the plains in 1844 : a first hand account of pioneer life in the American West

Title: Across the plains in 1844 : a first hand account of pioneer life in the American West / Catherine Sager Pringle.
Author: Sager, Catherine, 1835-1910
Publication: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2016].

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Description

80 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During it, both Henry and Naomi lost their lives and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, they were orphaned a second time, when both their new parents were killed during the Whitman massacre in November 1847. About 1860 Catherine, the oldest girl, wrote a first-hand account of their journey across the plains and their life with the Whitmans. Today it is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration."--Book description, Amazon.com.

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Genre/Form

History
Biographies.

Note

Date of publishing taken from Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Across-Plains-1884-Catherine-Sager/dp/1541151003

Contents

On the plains in 1844 -- Home life at the Whitman's -- Waiilatpu Massacre, 1847 -- In captivity.

ISBN

1541151003
9781541151000

OCLC

on1393968566
1393968566
SCSB-14539084

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries