This chapter examines the nationalization of the Marcus Whitman story in the 1890s through the efforts of Stephen Penrose, Daniel K. Pearsons, and Oliver W. Nixon. It talks about Pearsons's financial resources and Nixon's wide-ranging media influence that brought the Whitman story to a wider audience than it had ever reached. It also mentions how Penrose, Pearsons, and Nixon refashioned the Whitman story to appeal to Gilded Age sensibilities. The chapter cites Penrose, Pearsons, and Nixon's narratives that Whitman became an exemplar of white masculinity and a harbinger of America's late nineteenth-century imperial expansion, the hero of an imperial providential history. It places Whitman within other late-nineteenth-century histories of the United States that emphasized the nation's superior racial stock, advanced state of civilization, and providential destiny to carry that civilization to the darker-skinned people of the world.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-29DOI: 10.12987/9780300258585-fm
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Pub Date : 2021-06-29DOI: 10.12987/9780300258585-005
{"title":"Three. Professionalizing Providence","authors":"","doi":"10.12987/9780300258585-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300258585-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":127931,"journal":{"name":"Providence and the Invention of American History","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133991163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter details how the Whitman story evolved out of the history of the establishment and subsequent collapse of Marcus Whitman's mission among the Cayuse people. It situates the Whitman Mission within antebellum Protestant understandings of missionary labor as ordained by God and destined for success. It also illustrates the providential framework, wherein the failure of a mission to win converts or implement any material change in the lives of missionized peoples would be viewed as incompatible with the divine destiny of mission work. The chapter recounts how Whitman came to the conclusion that the Cayuse people were providentially doomed to extinction and that his true purpose was to facilitate the Christianization of Oregon Territory. It discusses Whitman's renarration of his own missionary purpose so that it could be seen as a success.
{"title":"Providence and the Scandal of Missionary Failure","authors":"Sara M. Koenig","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1q8tfd3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q8tfd3.5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details how the Whitman story evolved out of the history of the establishment and subsequent collapse of Marcus Whitman's mission among the Cayuse people. It situates the Whitman Mission within antebellum Protestant understandings of missionary labor as ordained by God and destined for success. It also illustrates the providential framework, wherein the failure of a mission to win converts or implement any material change in the lives of missionized peoples would be viewed as incompatible with the divine destiny of mission work. The chapter recounts how Whitman came to the conclusion that the Cayuse people were providentially doomed to extinction and that his true purpose was to facilitate the Christianization of Oregon Territory. It discusses Whitman's renarration of his own missionary purpose so that it could be seen as a success.","PeriodicalId":127931,"journal":{"name":"Providence and the Invention of American History","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121670347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-31DOI: 10.12987/9780300258585-001
H. Bigelow, W. C. Schroeder
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