![]() ![]() Due to their gender, they helped open a floodgate of American immigrants to the West Coast that proved to be an unwelcome onslaught of permanent settlers scattered among Indian tribes. Thus we have everything we could wish for supplied us ….”Įliza Spalding and Narcissa Whitman were the first American white women to cross the Oregon Trail. I have got collected before me an assortment of garden seeds which I take up, also I intend taking some young sprouts of apple peach & grapes & some strawberry vines &C from the nursery here. ![]() …I save all the seeds of those I eat for planting & of apples also. Narcissa was particularly delighted with the apples and grapes: It was written in early September 1836 soon after their arrival at the “civilized” Fort Vancouver. At the Fort, Narcissa extolled the virtues of the garden in her journal. After several days of rest, the party of four American missionaries, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Henry and Eliza Spalding, continued down river several hundred miles to Fort Vancouver. In 1836, Missionary Narcissa Whitman was relieved to see the flourishing garden at Fort Walla Walla (Hudson’s Bay Company). ![]()
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