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1802, New York, Marcus Whitman is born. Six years later Narcissa Prentiss is born in Prattsburgh, New York.
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Marcus and Narcissa Whitman start a long journey after they get married, and are both acceptedto be missionaries.
The couple reached the Walla Walla river on september 1, and decide to found a mission to the Cayuse native Indians. -
The Whitmans two-year old duaghter drowned in a lake. And Narcissa's eye sight was failing more, and more.
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Marcus helped lead the great migration to the weast, guiding a wagon train of one thousand pioneers up the Oregon trail. The Whitmans spent more time assisting theAmericans then in ministrating the Cayuse Natives.
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After bringing the whites into cyuse teritorie the indians were overwhelmed, the whites brought measles and the indians wher diing, they had to take action. They killed 14 whites, inluding the whitmans, and burned the mission buildings down.
