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The Rev. Cushing and Myra Eells were early Protestant missionaries to the Pacific Northwest and contemporaries of the Whitmans. They occupied the mission at Tshimakain with the Rev. Elkanah and Mary Walker until it was abandoned during the Cayuse War.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> This illustration combines two portraits taken later in their lives.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Source: Spokane Public Library, Northwest Room.

Extending upstream from where you stand is Inspiration Point and the monuments to the so-called Christian Pioneers. Funded and dedicated by an ecumenical collection of local churches, the monument was meant to inform visitors at Expo 74 of the…

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