Waiilatpu: Its Rise and Fall 1836-1847 Miles Cannon SIGNED ~ Marcus Whitman Mission History ~ Walla Walla ~ Henry H. Spalding ~ Missionaries

Title: Waiilatpu: Its Rise and Fall 1836-1847

Author: Miles Cannon

Description: Signed by author on front free endpaper. Modest wear to cover edges. Interior is clean and, aside from an erased pencil price on the ffep and a couple penciled correction to the text (possibly made by the author), the interior is clean. 15 pages of illustrations (mostly photographs) on plates, including frontispiece. ix + 171 pages.

A history of the mission at Waiilatpu, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Henry H. Spalding, their work with the Cayuse Indians, and the Whitman massacre and its aftermath.

The author, having been at Walla Walla on November 29, 1897, on the 50th anniversary of the massacre, had heard many conflicting statements which conflicted with historical statements that had been made about the massacre and related events. Over the intervening years he gathered detailed information and in 1915, met three of the survivors and heard their firsthand testimony. In this history, he sets out to separate fact from fiction.

The author, Miles W. Cannon (1862-1938), was a prominent citizen and business man in North Yakima and Boise. He was one of the wealthiest men in Yakima County and established and was president of the Yakima Valley Bank, organized the Emporium (the largest department store in central Washington), and was manager of the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company's lumber yards in eastern Washington. He also held various government positions, including several years as receiver and register of the United States land office in Yakima. In 1909 he moved to the Boise area and was in the fruit business while also serving as an Idaho state Highway Commissioner and was later the state commissioner of agriculture, connected with the Department of the Interior during the Coolidge administration.

Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Capital News Job Rooms
Place: Boise, Idaho
Year: 1915

Keywords: history, Walla Walla, Washington, pioneers, missionaries, Whitman massacre, Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Whitman, Henry H. Spalding, Cayuse Indians, Peter Skene Ogden,