Narcissa Whitman Settles West: First White Woman Over the Rockies
Narcissa Whitman hadn't ridden a horse sidesaddle the way frontier travel demanded — she'd ridden in a saddle, which scandalized observers at nearly every stop across 3,000 miles. She and Eliza Spalding made it to the Columbia Plateau anyway, the first white American women to cross the Rockies. Narcissa set up a mission at Walla Walla, learned Nez Perce, raised eleven children (none biologically hers). Eleven years later, she was killed in the Whitman Massacre. The journey west was the easiest part.
September 1, 1836
190 years ago
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