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The Mountains We Have Crossed: Diaries and Letters of the Oregon Mission, 1838.
・ISBN 978-0-8032-6621-6 paper US$ 20.00
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| 著者・編者 | Drury, Clifford Merrill (ed.), |
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| 出版社 | (University of Nebraska Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 1999 |
| ページ数 | 277 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-70524＞ |
解説
Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest for the incessant bickering and petty jealousies that eventually caused the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and forced the abandonment of the mission effort. Uncertainty and conflict as well as willpower and endurance mark the story of the Oregon Mission and its charismatic, though contentious, missionaries. Simply getting to Oregon in the 1830s was a feat. Once they arrived, their efforts were doomed by their inability to agree on strategies for converting the Nez Perce and Spokane Indians. This Bison Books edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, "the weeping one" as the Indians remembered her. When read in chronological sequence with the nearly one hundred letters written by her husband, Asa, a compelling picture of their journey to Oregon and subsequent life at the mission emerges. Other letters, documents, and biographical sketches enhance the volume.