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 ne hundred and fifty years ago the
mission established by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman
near present-day Walla Walla, Washington was a way
station for overland immigrants to Oregon. An
outbreak of measles in 1847 ravaged the Cayuse
tribe which lived near the mission. Although Doctor
Whitman gave medicines to the Indians the number of
fatalities among the tribe continued to grow. On
November 29, 1847 the mission was attacked by the
Cayuse and Doctor Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and
twelve other whites were killed.
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