5. Dr. Marcus Whitman 72 6. Mission Station at Waiilatpui 88 7. Mrs. Narcissa Prentice Whitman 104 8. Whitman Pleading for Oregon before President Tyler and Secretary Webster 128 9. Rev. H. H. Spalding 144 10. Rev. Cushing Eells, D.D. 160 11. Whitman College 176 12. Whitman's Grave 224 13. Dr. John McLoughlin 248 14. Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons 264 15. Rev. S. B. L. Penrose, President of Whitman College 272 16. The Log School House on the Willamette 280 17. A. J. Anderson, Ph.D. 296 18. Rev. James F. Eaton, D.D. 296 19. Portraits of Flathead Indians Who Visited St. Louis 313 INTRODUCTION BY REV. FRANK W. GUNSAULUS, D.D., Pastor of Plymouth Church, and President of Armour Institute, Chicago. Among the efforts at description which will associate themselves with either our ignorance or our intelligence as to our own country, the following words by our greatest orator, will always have their place: "What do we want with the vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or these endless mountain ranges, impenetrable, and covered to their base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the Western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, and uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it is now." Perhaps no words uttered in the United States Senate were ever more certainly wide of their mark than these of Daniel Webster. In their presence, the name of Marcus Whitman is a bright streak of light penetrating a vague cloud-land. Washington, with finer prevision, had said: "I shall not be contented until I have explored the Western country." Even the Father of his Country did not understand the vast realm to which he referred, nor had his mind any boundaries sufficiently great to inclose that portion of the country which Marcus Whitman preserved to the United States.