Letter to Mary Wheeler Walker about work at the Warm Springs Agency, including school and church matters

Title

Letter to Mary Wheeler Walker about work at the Warm Springs Agency, including school and church matters

Description

A letter from Warm Springs Indian Agency employee Cyrus Walker to his wife, Mary Wheeler Walker. The letter describes Sabbath "meetings" (i.e. church services) with Natives from the Warm Springs Agency; missionaries at Warm Springs; taking the census of tribal members at Simnasho; missing Mary and their son, Clifford; and Warm Springs school business.
Cyrus Walker was the oldest son of the early Oregon Territory missionaries Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker. He grew up at Tshimakain in the 1830s-40s, where he learned the native Spokane language. After joining the U.S. army during the Civil War and then attempting to make a living as a farmer, he became a teacher at the Warm Springs Indian Agency. These letters, documents and clippings shed light on his experiences as a missionary, a soldier, a pioneer and a teacher at Warm Springs. This collection was donated to Pacific University by Betty Thorne, a descendant of the Walkers.

Creator

Walker, Cyrus Hamlin

Is Part Of

Cyrus Walker Binder 1

Identifier

PUA_MS102_1890_08_14.pdf

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Provenance

Donated by Betty Thorn, Walker Family descendant.

Type

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