Cassandra Tate is a journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard who holds a history PhD from the University of Washington. She contributes to many media, including HistoryLink.org, the online encyclopedia of Washington state history.
The book, Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and its Shifting Legacy in the American West, sheds new light on the legend-shrouded story of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.