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Rev. John Dunbar and Samuel Allis set out in 1834 to establish a mission to Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains. Unable to obtain a guide and with only a vague knowledge of the West, they instead encountered the Pawnee Indians in Nebraska. It was the beginning of a twelve-year odyssey to convert the tribe to Protestant Christianity and New England "civilization." Dunbar and Allis traveled with the Pawnees on buffalo hunts and spent time at thei...

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Rev. John Dunbar and Samuel Allis set out in 1834 to establish a mission to Indians beyond the Rocky Mountains. Unable to obtain a guide and with only a vague knowledge of the West, they instead encountered the Pawnee Indians in Nebraska. It was the beginning of a twelve-year odyssey to convert the tribe to Protestant Christianity and New England OC civilization.OCO Dunbar and Allis traveled with the Pawnees on buffalo hunts and spent time at ...

Richard E. Jensen is the editor of The Pawnee Mission Letters, 1834�51 (Nebraska 2010) and two volumes of Voices of the American West (Nebraska 2005). R. Eli Paul is the editor of The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865�77 (Nebraska 1998). John E. Carter is a senior research folklorist at the Nebraska State Historical Society and the author of Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream (Nebraska 1985). James A. Hanson is the editor of ...

Richard E. Jensen is the editor of several books, including Happy as a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1876�80 (available in a Bison Books edition), Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903�19 (Nebraska 2005), and Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903�19 (Nebraska 2005).