Cannon, Miles

Waiilatpu: Its Rise and Fall, 1836-1847. A Story of Pioneer Days in the Pacific Northwest Based Entirely Upon Historical Research

Boise, ID: Capital News Job Rooms, 1915. First Edition. 171pp. Octavo [24 cm] Yapp style brown illustrated wrappers. About very good. Bumping and chipping to extremities of covers. Item #10359

This work covers the pioneer days in the Pacific Northwest, and the Cayuse attack on the Whitman Mission at Walla Walla in 1847. The author had access to three survivors of the massacre, and with their oral histories, as well as the author's considerable research make this one of the more accurate accounts of that tragic event. Graff 575. Soliday 181. Tweney 7.

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