Chapter XI

THE MEMORIALS TO WHITMAN--WHY DELAYED--WHY HISTORY WAS NOT SOONER WRITTEN--WHITMAN COLLEGE THE GRAND MONUMENT 172

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

OLIVER WOODSON NIXON _Frontispiece_

SACAJAWEA (the Bird-Woman) 16

CASCADES OF THE COLUMBIA (B. H. Gifford, Photo.) 22

STRANGE VISITORS IN OLD ST. LOUIS 28

AN INDIAN WELCOME 40

PACIFIC SPRINGS, JULY 4, 1835 57

THE TOILSOME TRAIL TO OREGON 64

MT. TACOMA, FROM LONGMIRE SPRINGS (the home of Nekahni) 80

LAKE CHELAN, FIRST VIEW OF THE SNOWY PEAKS 100

LOST IN THE ROCKIES 118

WHITMAN CROSSING GRAND RIVER 132

MARMADUKE ISLAND (B. H. Gifford, Photo.) 140

THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. WHITMAN 152

DR. D. K. PEARSONS 164

MEMORIAL HALL, WHITMAN COLLEGE 176

YOUNG MEN'S DORMITORY, WHITMAN COLLEGE 176

REV. S. B. L. PENROSE, PRESIDENT OF WHITMAN COLLEGE 182