The 1847 Cayuse Indian attack on missionary Marcus Whitman illustrated the clash of cultures between Native Americans and early settlers to Oregon Country. The Oregon Militia later mounted a campaign against the Cayuse and the suspects were tried and executed in 1850. (Illustration of "the Assassination of Marcus Whitman": from Marcus Whitman M.D.: Pioneer and Martyr by Clifford Merrill Drury, 1937.)

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