Answers to Sample Questions
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- New York.
- 1836.
- They came
to build a mission and to teach the Indians about Christianity.
- The Cayuse
Indians.
- March 14,
1837.
- Alice died
on June 23, 1839. She drowned in the Walla Walla River.
- Two years
and three months.
- Sager.
- The first
house flooded because it was built too close to the Walla Walla
River.
- Flour was
ground up using a grist mill. The grist mill was water powered.
- There were
75 apple trees, plus a nursery of apple, peach and locust trees.
- The blacksmith's
job was to make items out of metal.
- Some of these
include horse and mule shoes, gardening tools, carpentry tools,
etc. Any five would be OK.
- In the Mission
house.
- There were
eight main rooms.
- 1) Helen
Mar Meek 2) Mary Ann Bridger 3) David Malin 4) Perrin Whitman
5) Catherine 6) Elizabeth 7) Francis 8) Hannah Louise 9) John
10) Henrietta 11) Matilda (Sager).
- The Oregon
Trail.
- Measles.
- The Cayuse
had no natural resistance to the measles.
- Death, if
the relatives of the deceased insisted.
- November
29, 1847.
- Thirteen
were killed at or near the site of the mission.
- There were
49 survivors held for one month.
- 62 blankets,
63 shirts, 12 guns, 600 loads of ammunition, 37 pounds of tobacco,
and 12 flints.
- James Douglas
and Peter Skene Ogden.
- 27 feet total;
elevation at base of Memorial Shaft: 720 feet above sea level.
- 1897--at
the 50th observance of the Killings.
- 14 names.
- William and
Mary Gray.
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