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Rh Flohr, Michael. Did Whitman save Oregon? n. p. n. publ, n. d.

In this unpaged pamphlet issued by St. Patrick's Church, Walla Walla, Wash., is contained an account of Father Flohr's lecture in which he discredits the saved Oregon story.

Foster, John W. Century of American diplomacy. Boston. Houghton. 1901. p. 305-306.

Follows Barrow's Oregon.

Fremont, John C. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and California in the years 1843-44. Ed. 1. Wash. Gales & Seaton. 1845. p. 182-183.

Fremont was at the Whitman station, Oct. 23, 1843, f°r about one hour.

Garrison, George Pierce. Westward extension, 1841-1850. N. Y. Harper. 1906 (Hart, A. B. ed. The American Nation, v. 17). P. 38-39.

Two sentences only, as follows: "In 1836 two Presbyterian missions were founded, one at Waiilatpu, on the Walla Walla River, and one on Lapwai Creek near its confluence with Clearwater River. The group of mission workers in this quarter included Rev. Samuel Parker, Rev. H. H. Spalding, a secular assistant named William H. Gray, and a physician, Marcus Whitman, who carried the first wagon over the divide of the Rockies, and whom a most interesting but wholly unfounded myth has credited with saving Oregon from the English."

Gilbert, Frank T. Historic sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon. Portland. Walling. 1882. p. 63-64, 68-70, 85-86, 96-97, 113-131-

Based on Gray.

Gray, W[illiam] H[enry]. History of Oregon, 1792-1849. Portland. Harris. 1870. Use table of contents.

A large part of the book is devoted to the Whitman massacre. Inaccurate. Should be used with extreme caution. Gray's main purpose seems to have been to throw all possible censure upon the Catholics and the Hudson Bay Co.

Greenhow, Robert. History of Oregon and California. Lond. Murray. 1844. p. 361.

Good material on the Oregon question. Bare mention of Whitman. Printing press at the mission noticed.

Griffis, William Elliott. The romance of conquest. Boston. Wilde. 1899. p. 171-173.

The saved Oregon story. Some inaccuracies due, perhaps, to careless proof reading, e. g. "Webster-Ashburton treaty 1846."