Twenty years after the massacre, fellow missionary Henry Spalding manufactured a false story about Whitman. Spalding contended Whitman had traveled to Washington, D.C., and “persuaded President ...

Henry H. Spalding (1803-1874), a Protestant minister, turned Marcus Whitman into an American hero and martyr after the Whitman Mission murders, primarily because of his unrequited love for Whitman ...

Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, fellow missionaries, were part of the party. ... Idaho's Spalding has historic Nez Perce mission church, cemetery. Updated: Jul. 15, 2012, 11:00 a.m.

Henry Spalding, the missionary who concocted the lie, had proposed to Narcissa Whitman two years before she met Marcus Whitman, and she’d turned him down. The eventual husband and wife traveled ...

Henry Spalding is largely responsible for spreading the myth of the Whitman Massacre, which Blaine Harden dismantles in "Murder at the Mission." (Pacific University) When we talked in early April ...

The story of Whitman’s heroism was noisily debunked in 1901 by Yale professor Edward G. Bourne, who described Spalding as “one of the most indefatigable old frauds I have ever come across.” ...

Twenty years after the massacre, fellow missionary Henry Spalding manufactured a false story about Whitman. Spalding contended Whitman had traveled to Washington, D.C., and "persuaded President ...

Spalding contended that Whitman had traveled to Washington, D.C., and "persuaded President (John) Tyler to stop the British plot to steal the Oregon Territory from the United States," Harden said.

Twenty years after the massacre, fellow missionary Henry Spalding manufactured a false story about Whitman. Spalding contended Whitman had traveled to Washington, D.C., and “persuaded President ...

Twenty years after the massacre, fellow missionary Henry Spalding manufactured a false story about Whitman. Spalding contended Whitman had traveled to Washington, D.C., and “persuaded President ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — For generations Marcus Whitman has been widely viewed as an iconic figure from early Pacific Northwest history, a venerated Protestant missionary who was among 13 people ...