Suggested Reading
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For teachers: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Opening of Old Oregon, by Clifford M. Drury. Oregon Geographic Names, by Lewis A. McArthur and Lewis Ankeny Washington State Place Names, by James W. Phillips Shallow Grave at Waiilatpu, by Erwin N. Thompson The Letters of Narcissa Whitman and My Journal, by Narcissa Prentiss Whitman. The Great Command: The Story of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and the Oregon Country Pioneers, by Nard Jones. Converting the West: a Biography of Narcissa Whitman, by Julie Roy Jefferey Juggernaut: The Whitman Massacre Trial, by Ronald B. Lansing Whitman Massacre of 1847, Sager The Cayuse Indians, by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown Prairie Traveler, A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions, published in 1859, by Randolph B. Marcy
For students: Stout-Hearted Seven, by Neta Frazier Cobblestone Magazine — issues on Oregon Trail, Chief Joseph, Mountain Men Daily Life in a Covered Wagon by Paul Erikson A variety of books by Bobbie Kalman If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon, by Ellen Levine Westward on the Oregon Trail, by Marian T. Place Discover the Oregon Trail, by Bobbie Salts The Story of the Oregon Trail, by R. Conrad Stein. … and many more |
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Did You Know?
The tule lodge offers a comfortable place for the people inside. The structure is held up by wooden poles and covered with mats made of tule. Tules are a type of sedge; they grow in marshy areas; and are also called "bullrushes." Tules are stronger than they look. A tule lodge can withstand rain and wind.