Author:Marcus Whitman

Marcus Whitman
(1802–1847)

Marcus Whitman

Works

• Letter to the American Board (1843)

Works about Whitman

• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Whitman, Marcus
• The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Whitman, Marcus

• 41st U.S. Congress: Senate Executive Document No. 37:
  • Letter from the Secretary of the Interior (Whitman Massacre) (1871)
  • Letter from the Secretary of the Interior (Whitman Massacre)/American Congress vs. Protestantism in Oregon (1871)

• Clarke in How Dr. Whitman Saved Oregon in The Californian (1880)
  • Victor in Did Dr. Whitman Save Oregon? in The Californian (1880)

• Eells: Marcus Whitman, MD: Proofs of his Work in Saving Oregon to the United States and in promoting the immigration of 1843 (transcription project) (1883, 42 pp)
• Victor in Dr. Marcus Whitman in the Oregonian, Nov. 6, 1884 (transcription project)
  • Evans: Whitman's Winter Ride, in the Oregonian, Dec. 25, 1884
    • Ross, Eells, Gray: The Whitman Controversy (1885)

• Nixon: How Marcus Whitman saved Oregon (note many images) (1895)
  • Victor: San Francisco Call/1895/How Oregon Was Saved (1895)
    • Nixon: San Francisco Call/1895/How Dr. Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon (1895)
      • Victor: San Francisco Call/1895/Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor vs. Dr. O. W. Nixon of Chicago (1895)

• H. S. Lyman in the Oregonian (review) (transcription project)
• S. L. B. Penrose in the Oregonian (1897) (external scan)

• Oregonian (unsigned editorial on 50th anniversary of assassination) (external scan) (1897)
• "Whitman Day" feature piece, Oregonian (1897) (external scan)

• Beadle: "The Story of Marcus Whitman" Refuted in The American Catholic Historical Researches (1899)

• Bourne: The American Historical Review/Volume 6/The Legend of Marcus Whitman (1901)
  • critical response from Oregon pioneer Alanson Hinman in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1901.
• Bourne: Essays in Historical Criticism (1901)
• Marshall (in proceedings of AHA): (external scan)
• Marshall: A Scathing Review of Mowry's book (1902) (external scan)
  • Oregonian: Description of Marshall's review (1902) (external scan)
• Marshall: History vs. the Whitman saved Oregon story (1904)

• Centennial in East Oregonian (1902)

• Nixon: Whitman's ride through savage lands, with sketches of Indian life (1905)

• Eells: Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and Patriot (transcription project) (1909) (note many images)

• Marshall: Acquisition of Oregon and the long suppressed evidence about Marcus Whitman Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (1911)
  • Scott: Review: Acquisition of Oregon and the long suppressed evidence about Marcus Whitman (OHQ 1911)
• W. D. Lyman: The Columbia River (Part 1, chapters 6 and 7.

• John Fiske's Change of Attitude on the Whitman Legend in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, 1912

• New York Times, 1923: History and Legend condemns President Warren Harding for promulgating the Whitman Legend, declares that it has long since been debunked, credits several people including Fiske, Marshall as well as Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, Harvey Whitefield Scott

Bibliographies

• A Contribution toward a Bibliography of Marcus Whitman (transcription project)
• Seattle Public Library Reading List, 1905 - two pages of sources covering Marcus Whitman controversies