Isabel Crawford

Joyful Journey: Highlights On The High Way is a book written by Isabel Crawford. The book is a collection of short stories that follow the author's journey through life. Crawford shares her experiences and insights, showing readers how to find joy and meaning in their own lives. The book is divided into chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of life. Crawford covers topics such as love, loss, faith, and spirituality. Each chapter is filled with inspiring anecdotes and practical advice on how to live a more joyful and fulfilling life. The author's writing style is warm and engaging, making the book an easy and enjoyable read. Overall, Joyful Journey: Highlights On The High Way is a must-read for anyone looking to find more happiness and meaning in their life.An Autobiography.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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.