Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman by Julie Roy Jeffrey

Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitman

Oklahoma Western Biographies #3

Julie Roy Jeffrey

256 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory.  Narcissa grew up in western New York State, her values and attitudes carefully shaped by her mother. Very much a child of the Second Gr...

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