85 R. Crooks to L. M. Warren, June 7, 1836, ibid., Letter Book III:276–78; R. Crooks to L. Warren, August 8, 1837, ibid., Letter Book V:247; R. Crooks to Martin Bates and Sons, March 8, 1844, ibid., Letter Book XXII:407.
A brief article about one of the leading missionaries is William N. Fenton, “Toward the Gradual Civilization of the Indian ... The biography of the two Pond brothers, written by a son and nephew, is Samuel W. Pond, Jr., Two Volunteer ...
Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and American Indian Response, 1787-1862
The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F. Berkofer, Jr. to be a significant point of contact with enduring lessons for American thought.
Using Protestant mission activity as the vanguard for acculturation, Berkhofer studies Indian-white relations from the founding of the United States until the Civil War.