Near the close of the nineteenth century, Isabel Crawford went to
the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation in Oklahoma and founded the Saddle
Mountain Baptist Mission. This book, written in journal form,
begins with her arrival at the reservation in 1896 and describes
her decade-long crusade to convert the Indians to Christianity. She
and her assistant were the only white women at the isolated station
in the Wichita Mountains.
Crawford's experience there tested her resourcefulness,
endurance, and sometimes her faith. Humor marks her journal as she
recounts her struggles to establish a formal mission. She lived
with the Indians, at first putting up in a tipi and adjusting, not
without difficulty, to their ways. She was "the Jesus woman" who
taught the Ten Commandments. In her wake came camp meetings,
baptisms, and "big eats." Through the years Isabel Crawford and her
Indian brothers and sisters were bound more closely as they raised
money to build a church. Though written with Christian purpose,
"Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory" shows Crawford's
sensitivity to Kiowa history and culture during a period of
transition.
The mission still exists and Isabel Crawford is still remembered
kindly, according to Clyde Ellis, who introduces this Bison Books
edition.
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