With the love of adventure and the valor of the one. the sturdy character and inflexible purpose of the other. California and Oregon are no less the handiwork of the latter than Massachusetts and Virginia of the former. When the golden sands of California lured the emigrant into the Far West. that region was not only widely removed in distance from the States. exempt from established law. and divorced from authority. but it was under the ban of leading American statesmen. That a large part of it was reserved to this country which otherwise would not have been. and that over it all there now obtains the most thoroughly democratic life. the most universally prosperous and wholesome civilization under the flag. are due to the energy. the courage. the inexorable purpose and indomitable patriotism of the pioneer. 1 do not know of a more heroic narrative than that which tells the world of the simple. selfsacrificing. dauntless life of Marcus Whitman. Relieved of all that the pen of fiction or romance may have added and reduced to plain. unquestioned facts. well founded and susceptible of historic proof. his life still remains one of those surrendered and dedicated to the highest impulses which stir the human heart.
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