Author : Joseph Woods Hancock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267783403
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Book Synopsis Missionary Work at Red Wing: 1849 to 1852 (Classic Reprint) by : Joseph Woods Hancock
Download or read book Missionary Work at Red Wing: 1849 to 1852 (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Woods Hancock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Missionary Work at Red Wing: 1849 to 1852 After due consideration of the matter, my wife and I con cluded to offer our services to the American Board of Foreign Missions, to labor among the Dakota or Sioux Indians. Our offer was accepted and a commission was sent to us from the officers of the Board. But it was now too late in the season to undertake the Journey to the Northwest Territory. Facilities for traveling, especially in that direction, were not what' they are now. Such' a place as Minnesota was not then known. The location assigned to us was described as follows: An Indian village on the west bank of the upper Mississippi river, a few miles above lake Pepin. We postponed our journey till the following spring. Dur ing the month of March in that year, a new territory, called Minnesota, was formed by act of the United: States Congress. So we learned, before we left the East, that our future home would be in Minnesota Territory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.