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Title: Kind of dry but it's the best one we've read
Review: I wish there were more children's books on Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Narcissa was the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains. They were the pioneers of the Oregon Trail, and they were missionary martyrs who gave their lives to try to teach the Cayuse Native Americans about Christ. We read this book while studying Westward Expansion. We've been reading lots of Garrard Discovery biographies. This was one of the dullest ones we're read so far. It's not horrible, but I know the Whitman's experiences could have been portrayed in a much more exciting manner. It's much more coherent than the Childhood of Famous Americans book on Narcissa Whitman. My 8 year old son enjoyed it, but my 4 year old son was interested in very little of the story. All that said, this is the best children's biography I have seen on the Whitmans.
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