The America Expansion coloring pages

19th Century American history coloring pages - (1836) - Dr Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

Dr Marcus and Narcissa Whitman journeyed west in early 1836 as missionaries and doctors and established an outpost along the trail that came known as the Oregon Trail. In 1843 Marcus Whitman led a large party of wagons from Fort Hall in eastern Idaho across the trail, it established the viability of the Oregon Trail for later homesteaders to follow.