On to Oregon
Subtitle: the diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells
By: introductions and editorial notes by Clifford Merrill Drury ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Mina Carson.
Contributors: Eells, Myra Fairbanks, 1805-1878.; Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Bison Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Eells, Myra Fairbanks, 1805-1878 -- Diaries; Walker, Mary Richardson, 1811-1897 -- Diaries; Women pioneers -- Northwestern States -- Diaries; Women pioneers -- Northwestern States -- Correspondence; Women missionaries -- Northwestern States -- Diaries; Women missionaries -- Northwestern States -- Correspondence; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Missions -- Oregon; Indians of North America -- Missions -- Oregon; Oregon -- History -- To 1859
Genres: Diaries.; Correspondence.
Other titles: First white women over the Rockies. Volume 2
Description: In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses, joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra Eells rode on horseback from Missouri to Oregon, keeping diaries throughout the months on the hazardous trail. After spending a winter at the Whitman mission in present-day Washington, the Walkers and Eellses moved north to do missionary work among the Spokane Indians.

Throughout On to Oregon the presence of Myra Fairbanks Eells is deeply felt, but it is Mary Richardson Walker who will be remembered for perhaps the richest diary we have from a woman pioneering in the West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-361) and index.
Originally published as v. 2 of: First white women over the Rockies. Glendale, Calif. : A.H. Clark, 1963.
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