Contest update!

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Our weekly contests have come to a close. So now we'll be gathering our judges up to decide the 3 grand prize winners. It may take us a couple weeks to make the winning announcement, so stay tuned!

Honorable Mentions…. Contest Entry

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We would like to add an Honorable Mentions for Israel Bailey for his outstanding Audio & Video Project "Beautiful Sunsets and Perfect Days”

H. Spalding | April 1848 Re: Massacre

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OREGON CITY April 6, 1848. To Stephen Prentiss, Esq., and Mrs. Prentiss, the Father and Mother of the late Mrs. Whitman of the Oregon Mission My Dear Father and Mother in Christ: Through the wonderful interposition of God in delivering me from the hand of the murderer, it has become my painful duty [...]

Narcissa August 1847


August 23-1847 My Dear Parents:-I see I cannot finish my letter without interruptions, and long ones, too. Another resolution of the meeting was that husband see to getting houses built for the mothers of the mission families, so that they could spend the winter here for the sake of having [...]

Narcissa July 1847

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WAIILATPU, OREGON TERRITORY. July 4th, 1847. My Dear Mother: It was not convenient for me to write to any of my friends in the States, the past spring by the returning of immigrants except sister Jane. To her I wrote briefly, in answer to the one received in March by the hand [...]

Dr. Whitman May 1846


Miss Jane A. Prentiss, Quincy, Adams Co., Illinois, U.S.A. WAIILATPU May 15th, 1846. Edward and Jane Prentiss, My Dear Brother and Sister: It gave us much pleasure to receive your letter by the last emigration, but it would have given us more to have seen you both here. If I could have known more [...]