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Dawson, Deborah Lynn. "Laboring in My Savior's Vineyard: The Mission of Eliza Hart Spalding," Bowling Green State University, August 1988.
Laboring in My Savior’s Vineyard is the biography of Eliza Hart Spalding, a nineteenth-century American missionary to the Nez Perce Indians. The purpose of this study was to examine the life of Eliza Spalding and her perspective of life on the frontier. Accompanying her husband, Henry Harmon Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman on the overland trail to Oregon, Eliza (along with Narcissa) was the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and to settle in what is now northern Idaho. From 1837 through 1848 Eliza and her husband operated a Presbyterian mission for the Nez Perces at Lapwai. This dissertation explores Eliza’s concerns and ideals regarding the Indian mission, her methods of teaching the Nez Perces about Christianity and white culture, and the attitudes the tribe had toward their white missionaries.
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