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" A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre" is a memoir of a pioneer woman, Matilda Sager. The story is a good historical read revealing the author's experience when the 1847 massacre occurred. She was only eight at that time when her adoptive parents, the missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife along with her two brothers were murdered. Excerpt: "In the spring of 1844, we started to make the journey across the plains with ox teams. I was born in 1839, October 16th, near St. Joseph, Mo., which was a very small town on the extreme frontier, right on the Missouri River, with just a...