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![]() NPS photo Period of Captivity: At the end of their eleven year endeavor among the Cayuses, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others were killed at Waiilatpu in the autumn of 1847. The Cayuses made captives of the surviving 49 immigrants, ransoming them one month later to Peter Skene Ogden of Fort Vancouver. ![]() NPS photo |
Last updated: June 24, 2018