Woman of Courage

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A Note From Wanda

It was during a time when my husband and I lived in Idaho, not far from Lapwai, that I began to research the Nez Perce Indians and how Rev. and Mrs. Spalding started the first mission there. I was interested in the fact that several years prior to the Spaldings’ arrival, a delegation of Nez Perce had gone to St. Louis, MO on a quest to find out more about the Book of Heaven (the Bible) and ask for missionaries to come to them. Although the story of Amanda Pearson, my Quaker heroine in the story, is purely fiction, the details I incorporated into the book about traveling through the mountains and the things she had to deal with are based on facts I learned while researching.