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===Missionaries===
In 1834, The Dalles [[Methodist Mission]] was founded by Reverend [[Jason Lee (missionary)|Jason Lee]] just east of [[Mount Hood]] on the [[Columbia River]]. In 1836, [[Henry H. Spalding]] and [[Marcus Whitman]] traveled west to establish the [[Whitman Mission National Historic Site|Whitman Mission]] near modern-day [[Walla Walla, Washington|Walla Walla]], Washington.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=1BD1D5D9-CBEA-5E8B-C0609C63D5C881B1 |title = Protestant Ladder |website = Oregon Historical Society |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120614055025/http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/historical_records/dspDocument.cfm?doc_ID=1BD1D5D9-CBEA-5E8B-C0609C63D5C881B1 |archive-date = June 14, 2012 }}</ref> The party included the wives of the two men, [[Narcissa Whitman]] and [[Eliza Hart Spalding]], who became the first European-American women to cross the Rocky Mountains. En route, the party accompanied American fur traders going to the 1836 rendezvous on the Green River in Wyoming and then joined Hudson's Bay Company fur traders traveling west to Fort Nez Perce (also called [[Fort Walla Walla]]). The group was the first to travel in wagons to Fort Hall, where the wagons were abandoned at the urging of their guides. They used pack animals for the rest of the trip to Fort Walla Walla and then floated by boat to Fort Vancouver to get supplies before returning to start their missions. Other missionaries, mostly husband and wife teams using wagon and pack trains, established missions in the Willamette Valley, as well as various locations in the future states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.