• 121.18944°W / 45.59556; -121.18944 The Wascopam Mission or Dalles Mission was a branch of the Methodist Mission opened at Celilo Falls in 1838. Among the...
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    In 1838 a branch of Jason Lee's Methodist Mission was established at Celilo Falls, named the Wascopam Mission, after the native Wasco Indians. In 1850...
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    while traveling east to establish a new Methodist station, named Wascopam Mission. He was the first westerner known to have used the trail. The trail...
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  • government would repay them at a later time. The group was to protect the Wascopam Mission at The Dalles and prevent any hostile forces from reaching the Willamette...
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    the state of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband, Marcus, near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington...
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    until 1837. In 1838 and 1839, De Smet helped to establish St. Joseph's Mission in what is now Council Bluffs, Iowa, in Potawatomi territory along the...
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    caravans west of Liberty, Missouri. The Whitman's mission was 120 miles from the Spalding's mission, a trip of five or six days during good weather to...
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    ISBN 978-0-12-088253-3. Boyd, Robert (1996). People of the Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-1236-7. Clark...
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    ISBN 978-1-317-61090-8. Boyd, Robert (1996), People of the Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission, Lincoln, NE: The University of Nebraska Press Coville, Frederick V...
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    Reverend Henry Spalding and his wife, Eliza, and William Gray, founded a mission near present-day Walla Walla, Washington in an effort to convert local...
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  • as acting superintendent. The group first visited the newly opened Wascopam Mission as they traveled up the Columbia. While waiting on an escort of the...
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    pioneers traveling by land from the east followed the Oregon Trail to Wascopam Mission (now The Dalles) and floated down the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver...
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    117°47′53″W / 47.91306°N 117.79806°W / 47.91306; -117.79806 The Tshimakain Mission started in September 1838, with the arrival of Congregationalist missionaries...
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    Whitman Mission National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located just west of Walla Walla, Washington, at the site of the former...
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    Press, 1930 Boyd, Robert Thomas, People of The Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission. University of Nebraska Press, 1996 Irving, Washington (1836). "Chapter...
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    built a log cabin chapel along the Willamette River near the Methodist Mission. This structure was later moved to St. Paul and served as the church for...
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    unsure of his usefulness at the Whitman mission and pessimistic that the mission would be successful. The mission established a farm, blacksmith shop, printing...
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    Mountains and into the lands of the Pacific Northwest to their religious missions in what would become the states of Idaho and Washington. Their missionary...
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    side-saddle for most of the 1900 miles. The missionaries arrived at the Whitman Mission on August 29, 1838. On September 20, 1839, the Walker and Eells family...
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    around Mount Hood. In the 19th century, this trail network linked the Wascopam Mission near The Dalles to settlements in the Willamette Valley. One popular...
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  • The Clatsop Mission was an outpost of the Methodist Mission near modern Astoria, Oregon, United States. Joseph H. Frost and his family was sent to the...
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  • carpentry tools, and two mill stones to stock the Jesuit missions. He spent a few months at the mission of St. Paul on the Willamette River (Champoeg, Oregon)...
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  • been flogged by Indian agent Elijah White after breaking into the Wascopam Mission home of missionary Henry K. W. Perkins. This incident frustrated Cockstock...
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    America in what are now the states of Oregon and Washington. His first mission in Washington State was unsuccessful. Eells and his family had to leave...
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  • Lee of the Wascopam Mission, which was a part of the Methodist Mission in the Oregon Country. Chinook was an orphan and lived at the mission. In the summer...
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  • Daniel Lee (Oregon missionary) (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
    America, beginning in 1834. He accompanied his uncle Jason Lee on the mission, and recounted many of his experiences along with Joseph H. Frost. He married...
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  • The Nisqually Mission was a branch of the Methodist Mission, the only one established north of the Columbia River. The station was opened in 1840 and...
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    St. Paul's Mission was a Jesuit mission church established in the Hudson's Bay Company's (HBC) Columbia District, in the Pacific Northwest region of North...
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    David Leslie (Oregon politician) (category Methodist Mission in Oregon)
    of New Hampshire, he joined Jason Lee as a missionary at the Methodist Mission in the Oregon Country in 1836. In that region he participated in the early...
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    April for Fort Nisqually and thence on to St. Francis Xavier Mission. He left the Mission in October 1844 for a school in the Willamette Valley for primarily...
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