Item #8878 The Words of the Pageant: How the West Was Won. Stephen B. L. in collaboration PENROSE, Percy Jewett Burrell.
The Words of the Pageant: How the West Was Won
The Words of the Pageant: How the West Was Won

The Words of the Pageant: How the West Was Won

[Walla Walla]: Bulletin Printing, 1923. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. Pp. [45]. Frontispiece illustration of Marcus Whitman statue. White wraps, saddle stapled, with color illustration of Native American man in headdress. Very Good+, creasing, soiling to covers, small stain to foredges of a few pages, slightly musty. Inscribed to "Mrs. Edmund Bowden from Ellen [Doheny]" Very Good. Item #8878

Produced to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Whitman Massacre. The pageant was "a lesson in Americanism, designed to teach boys and girls the virtues of their ancestors as well as the thrilling history of the West." As Cassandra Tate pointed out in her history-correcting Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West, Penrose gave rise to the Whitman-Saved-Oregon myth, using purported martyrdom as a fundraising tool for Whitman College, of which he was president.

Mrs. Bowden is Angie Elizabeth Burt Bowden (1862-1952), author of Early Schools of Washington Territory and a pioneer herself, having lived in Walla Walla from 1866 - 1882. SMITH: 8045.

Price: $225.00

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