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 CHAPTER VII.

Walla Walla and Southeastern Washington.

The people of Walla Walla and surrounding country revere the name of that brave and fearless missionary, Whitman, who saved the whole country, then known as Oregon, to the American government. Mr. Whitman crossed the Rocky Mountains and the then uninhabited western plains, on horseback, his sole companion being an Indian guide who could not stand the chilly blasts of winter, and with frozen feet, had to be left behind on reaching the first settlement, while the hero pressed on with his tired horse alone during the entire winter, and eventually reached the nation's capital at Washington, D. C., and explained to the President and his cabinet, the extensive