Narcissa Whitman
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington.
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Narcissa Prentiss Whitman was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband, Marcus, near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, she and Eliza Hart Spalding became the first documented European-American women to cross the Rocky Mountains.
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Lived 1808 to 1847 · aged 39
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