Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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[OREGON TERRITORY]. Oregon Spectator. News of the Whitman massacre and a treaty with Native Americans. Oregon City, O.T.: Wilson Blain and Robert Moore, 18 April 1850. Vol. 4, No. 15. 4pp., folio (508 x 318 mm), old fold. FIRST NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN OREGON. Includes mentions of the Whitman massacre that happened on 29 November 1847. Thirteen people along with American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were killed by a group of Cayuse men who accused Whitman of poisoning 200 Cayuse in his medical care during an outbreak of measles that included the Whitman?s household.