Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding

Narcissa's letter home did not dwell on the trappers. As soon as she got down from her horse, she wrote, she was met by a company of Indian matron women; the plaque's first white women were welcomed first by Native women. Eliza, quieter, spent the stay learning the Nez Perce language, and she later became the first of the missionaries to speak a Native tongue. When the party left on July 18 it went west with two Hudson's Bay Company men and some 200 Nez Perce, women and children among them, as guides.

What the plaque says

To Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding missionaries. First white women in Wyoming and first women over Oregon Trail 1836 July 6 to July 18 was spent at "Green River Rendezvous" These pilgrim women took an active part in religious services held here. Placed by Wyoming Federation of Women's Clubs The Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming Sublette County Historical Association

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Mountain Man — 11 mi
  Six fur-trade rendezvous met near here on the Green; the only artist who ever saw one, Alfred Jacob Miller, came in 1837.

More markers nearby

• Green River Rendezvous — steps away
• Pinckney W. Sublette — 1.4 mi
• First Holy Mass in Wyoming — 1.4 mi
• The Prairie of the Mass — 1.9 mi