Primary Resources - Firsthand Accounts

The Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman
Narcissa was the first woman to make it West. Relive her experience through her very own words!

Writing on the Oregon Trail
Learn about all of the diaries, journals, and reminisces that were composed as settlers traveled West.

Catherine Sager, Across the Plains in 1844
The Sager children become orphans on the Oregon Trail and victims of a massacre at the Whitman mission.