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Whitman Barred British Trade of Northwest Lands
Detroit Free Press notes how Marcus Whitman opposed British plans to claim and trade the Northwest. He persuaded President Tyler and Webster to allow emigrants to cross the mountains with wagons, preserving U S control of Oregon and Washington after 1843 expeditions.
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