Scarce and desirable first edition relating the account of the first two Protestant Missionaries in Minnesota. Two Volunteer Missionaries Among the Dakotas or the Story of the Labors of Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond by S. W. Pond, Jr. Contains several full-page illustrations. Published in 1893 by the Congregational Sunday School & Publishing Society. The Ponds--Congregationalists who became Presbyterians-- came from Connecticut to the area around Ft. Snelling in 1834, fully fifteen years before the creation of Minnesota Territory. They attempted to teach the Dakota how to farm more intensively and urged them to consider conversion to Christianity. Opposed to the reservation system and frustrated with the 1851 treaties, they left their work with the Dakota mission and founded Presbyterian churches in white communities. In 1862, Gideon was ministering at Oak Grove Presbyterian Church and Samuel was the minister at First Presbyterian Church of Shakopee. Both congregations counted Christian Dakota among their members. Gideon and Samuel traveled to Fort Snelling by steamboat. They began teaching Euro-American farming to Dakota people near Lake Calhoun in present-day Minneapolis. They also created the “Pond-Dakota” alphabet, which is still used today. Gideon Pond was the first to write the Dakota language. Solid and clean with no major faults. Hinges sound. Couple of very light and small spots in upper right corner of cover (see photo). Spine toned a little. 5.25 x 7.5. 278 pp.

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