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The Whitman massacre (also known as the Whitman killings and the Tragedy at Waiilatpu) refers to the killing of American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa...

as the 1847 Whitman massacre, over a misunderstanding, resulting in the beginning of the Cayuse war (1847-1855). In 1836, Marcus Whitman led an overland...

as well as brothers John and Francis Sager, were killed during the Whitman massacre in November 1847. About 1860 Catherine, the oldest daughter, wrote...

Whitman just shot the top of his head off. I stayed right where I was for a long, long time — until I saw them, with my own eyes, bringing Whitman's body...

others attacked the mission, killing both Whitmans. This event would be remembered as the Whitman massacre, in which eleven others were killed, including...

who came to the Whitman Mission for treatment. Tensions erupted 1847 when the Cayuse attacked the Whitman Mission, see Whitman massacre. According to Cayuse...

missionaries Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman, along with 12 others were killed by a group of Cayuse Indians during the Whitman Massacre. While at the site...

immediate start of the conflict occurred in 1847 when the Whitman massacre took place at the Whitman Mission near present-day Walla Walla, Washington when...

contributed to the violent impulses which Whitman had been exhibiting for several years prior to the massacre.: 54  At the time, the University of Texas...

traveled to Washington, D.C., with the news of the killings (known as the Whitman massacre) and the ensuing Cayuse War. Leaving in early January, Meek, George...

Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American mass murderer and Marine veteran who became known as the "Texas Tower Sniper"...

near the Whitman mission prior to the massacre and been disfigured during a fight with Snake warriors in 1850 while hunting Marcus Whitman's killers....

their part of the region unorganized for two years until news of the Whitman massacre reached the United States Congress and helped to facilitate the organization...

commanded the forces of the provisional government of Oregon after the Whitman Massacre. The Oregon Legislative Assembly created Gilliam County on February...

in the Whitman massacre Marina von Neumann Whitman (born 1935), American economist, writer and former automobile executive Martin J. Whitman (1924–2018)...

Several later historians have named Hill as the primary cause of the Whitman Massacre, earning him some notoriety. Hill was born in the vicinity of Upper...

Idaho and Washington. Their missionary party of five, including Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa and William H. Gray, joined with a group of fur traders...

15, 2016). The Terrible Indian Wars of the West: A History from the Whitman Massacre to Wounded Knee, 1846–1890. McFarland. pp. 151–152. ISBN 978-1-4766-2310-8...

Magliore Blanchet, Francis Blanchet's brother, being blamed for the Whitman Massacre in 1847, despite only arriving in Walla Walla three months prior to...

"medicine man" Marcus Whitman personally responsible, and executed Whitman and twelve other white settlers. This was called the Whitman massacre in 1847. This...