Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award
“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times
“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio Saunt,author of Unworthy Republic
From the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West
In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert me
