WHY THE UNITED STATES DICKERED WITH ENGLAND FOR HALF A CENTURY BEFORE ASSERTING HER RIGHTS--AMERICAN STATESMEN HAD A SMALL APPRECIATION OF THE VALUE OF OREGON, AND WERE OPPOSED TO EXPANSION 96 CHAPTER VIII THE CONDITIONS OF OREGON IN 1842--THE ARRIVAL OF AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS AT WHITMAN'S MISSION--THE NEWS THEY BROUGHT--WHITMAN'S GREAT WINTER RIDE TO WASHINGTON--INCIDENTS OF THE JOURNEY--REACHES THE CAPITAL 104 CHAPTER IX WHITMAN IN WASHINGTON--HIS CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT TYLER, SECRETARY WEBSTER, AND SECRETARY OF WAR PORTER--VISITS GREELEY IN NEW YORK, AND THE AMERICAN BOARD--RESTS, AND RETURNS TO THE FRONTIER 129 CHAPTER X WHITMAN JOINS THE GREAT EMIGRATING COLUMN--NEWS OF ITS SAFE ARRIVAL IN OREGON REACHES WASHINGTON IN 1844--ITS EFFECT UPON THE PEOPLE, AND OREGON'S IMPORTANCE ACKNOWLEDGED--THE POLITICAL CONTEST--THE MASSACRE AT WAIILATPUAN 148 CHAPTER XI THE MEMORIALS TO WHITMAN--WHY DELAYED--WHY HISTORY WAS NOT SOONER WRITTEN--WHITMAN COLLEGE THE GRAND MONUMENT 172 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE OLIVER WOODSON NIXON _Frontispiece_ SACAJAWEA (the Bird-Woman) 16 CASCADES OF THE COLUMBIA (B. H. Gifford, Photo.) 22 STRANGE VISITORS IN OLD ST. LOUIS 28 AN INDIAN WELCOME 40 PACIFIC SPRINGS, JULY 4, 1835 57 THE TOILSOME TRAIL TO OREGON 64 MT. TACOMA, FROM LONGMIRE SPRINGS (the home of Nekahni) 80 LAKE CHELAN, FIRST VIEW OF THE SNOWY PEAKS 100 LOST IN THE ROCKIES 118 WHITMAN CROSSING GRAND RIVER 132 MARMADUKE ISLAND (B. H. Gifford, Photo.) 140 THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. WHITMAN 152 DR. D. K. PEARSONS 164 MEMORIAL HALL, WHITMAN COLLEGE 176 YOUNG MEN'S DORMITORY, WHITMAN COLLEGE 176 REV. S. B. L. PENROSE, PRESIDENT OF WHITMAN COLLEGE 182 CHAPTER I _The Lewis and Clark Centenary Exposition in Portland. The Great Captains. Their Guides, Hoe Noo Chee and Sacajawea (The Bird-Woman)._