Ill Amidst the Verdant Vales
Today, it takes thirty-nine hours to drive from Eliza Hart Spalding’s hometown in east New York State to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1836, when she and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman became the first white women to cross the Rockies, it was a seven-month ordeal to reach what was then known as Oregon Territory; Mary Richardson Walker… MORE