Chapter I: Appendix

The Missionary's Story--The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Outline History of the Oregon Missions; Jason Lee's great sermon; Massacre of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman; Destruction of the Mission, &c

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

President and Old Pioneer ...... Frontispiece

Ezra Meeker, the author ...... Frontispiece

Condensed map of the Oregon Trail and National Road

Farewell Party at the Mulhall Homestead in Missouri

A near catastrophe in crossing the Missouri

Typical emigrant outfit on the Oregon Trail

Using a wagon-box as a "boat"

Under the Yoke for the first time

A Corral at an overnight stop on the Trail through the Indian Country

Almost "Down and Out"

Monument along the Clover Creek Highway, near Tacoma, Washington

Reduced to a Hand Cart

The honeymoon party on Puget Sound

"Help Yourself

"Babe in the Woods"

Scene after the Massacre

Tracks on the Oregon Trail made nearly a century ago

The lone pine

Jason Lee's great sermon

Dr. John McLoughlin welcoming Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Spalding to Fort Vancouver

Arrival of the Sager orphans at the Whitman Mission

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The front cover design combines a distant view of the majestic mountain of the Pacific Northwest with a pictorial representation of one of the great falls on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains--both landmarks enshrined in the memories of the few surviving Pioneers over the Oregon Trail.

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