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About Narcissa Whitman
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.
Everything about Narcissa Whitman →- Occupation
- missionary, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 14, 1808
- Died
- November 29, 1847