But Marcus Whitman did not enslave people ... such as changing the name of the college newspaper from The Pioneer to the Whitman Wire, or changing the name of the school’s mascot from the ...

where it will replace a bronze bust depicting 19th-century missionary and pioneer Marcus Whitman as a man of the American frontier, with Bible in one hand and saddle bags in the other. National ...

OLYMPIA – Bronze statues of pioneer settler Marcus Whitman won’t be leaving the U.S. or state capitols anytime soon. A Senate committee signaled Wednesday it was unlikely to pass along a ...

The Frank statue would replace one of Oregon Trail pioneer Marcus Whitman. The larger-than-life bronze of Whitman has stood in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall for nearly 70 years. Each state is ...

The actions of Marcus Whitman have increasingly been viewed as imperialistic and destructive. Washington Legislature voted to strip his likeness from the U.S. Capitol. Whitman's name still adorns ...

GORHAM, NY — Those darn squirrels seem to get into everything, even the plastic tubing that leads from a small, wooded area on the Marcus Whitman school campus to a new red-painted sugarhouse.

When I served on the Statesman editorial board and joined my colleagues interviewing candidates seeking an endorsement from the paper, I was often amused when candidates kicked off their comments ...

WALLA WALLA — More than a dozen members of the Walla Walla community and others spoke in support or in opposition to the removal of a statue of pioneer Marcus Whitman during a recent meeting of ...