I thought the old film, which provides an interesting contrast, was online somewhere but I cannot find it now. Anyone? In the meantime, you can enjoy this episode of On the Road With Charles Kuralt, which focuses on Narcissa and comes from a similar interpretive understanding of the event: Charles Kuralt on the Road to the Whitman Killings. (Bonus Hunter S. Thompson footage at the bottom of the post!)
Monday, February 1, 2016
New Whitman Mission Film Online
A few years back I was filmed as one of the talking heads in a new interpretive film for Whitman Mission National Historic Site. I blogged about the experience at the time: In Which I am Filmed, and Confront a Ghost. The film premiered at the mission in 2013. I just noticed that it is now available on YouTube. Despite my participation the film is quite good--here you go:
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Great to learn more about this part of Western history. My understanding, though, is that their covered wagon was pulled by oxen, not horses, and adults did not ride, but walked alongside their wagons. Is that correct?
Good catch, and that is my understanding as well.
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