Roberta McKern
EDITOR’S NOTE: The first installment of this two-part series ran in the March 29, 2023, edition of the New Era. Read it online at https://bit.ly/40wpozR.
Last month’s article left us at the beginning of author Clifford Drury’s description of the 1847 Whitman massacre, as outlined in his 1937 book, “Marcus Whitman M.D .: Pioneer and Martyr.” What he reconstructed from various narratives illustrates what happened at the Whitman mission, but we won’t repeat…