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Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding were the first woman to

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to cross the Continental Divide

In the mid-1830s Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding became the first white women to cross the Continental Divide when they accompanied their husbands—Marcus Whitman and Henry Harmon Spalding—on a Congregationalist mission in the Northwest.

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