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 History
of Baptist Indian Missions
By Isaac McCoy
Completed in 1839 and published the following year, Isaac McCoy’s
History of Baptist Indian Missions constitutes one of the most original
and valuable contributions ever made to the literature of the American
Indian or to the annals of missionary endeavor.
"The author resided more than twenty years among the Ottawas,
Pottawatomies, and Miamis as a missionary. During this period, he kept a
journal of events and incidents of Indian life, which with his letters
and reports, formed a great mass of material from which to form his
history. It is largely composed of the records of personal experience;
but is far from being a mere missionary report of religious progress. It
is in fact the work of a highly intelligent man, who recorded with the
judgment of a historian, while he labored with the zeal of an
ecclesiastic; and the result of his early philosophical observations has
been, to give us a very valuable record of the characteristic traits of
the Indian tribes he lived among. The first forty pages are occupied
with remarks on the origin of the Indian tribes. The awfully rapid
destruction of the aboriginal race, by contact with the whites; the
murders, the debauchery, and the superstition of the Indians, as well as
the nobler traits, receive a large share of the author’s attention."
Thomas W. Field An Essay Towards An Indian Bibliography, Being a
Catalogue of Books Relating to the History, Antiquities, Languages,
Customs, Religion, Wars, Literature, and Origin of the American Indians
(New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1873), p. 255
Reading the story of Isaac and Christiana McCoy and of their
compassionate and heroic labors in the face of such tremendous adversity
is an unforgettable experience.
Particular Baptist Press has expanded McCoy’s work by adding to this new
edition a Biographical Introduction and Epilogue, a complete index of
persons and subjects, a genealogy of Isaac and Christiana, as well as a
number of black and white and color illustrations, all making this the
most useful and collectable edition of this enduring work now available.
Grade C cloth bound vellum, with attractive dust jacket, 690 pages, acid
free paper.
$37 plus shipping
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