Eliza Spalding

In addition, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding, the wives of the two men, accompanied them on their journey, thus becoming the first white women to cross the South Pass and the Continental Divide.

Spalding and his wife, Eliza, and two single men. The two wives were the first white women to cross the continental divide. The party reached Fort Vancouver (now Vancouver, Washington) in September.