CRAWFORD, Isabel (Alice Hartley) 1865-1961

PERSONAL:

Born May 26, 1865, in Cheltenham, Ontario, Canada; died November 18, 1961, in Winona, NY (some sources say Canada); buried in Saddle Mountain Mission cemetery, Saddle Mountain, OK; daughter of a Baptist minister. Education: Attended Baptist Missionary Training School, Chicago, IL.

CAREER:

Worked as a missionary in Chicago, IL; American Baptist Home Missionary Society, missionary to Kiowa Indians in Elk Creek, OK, 1893-95, and Saddle Mountain, OK, 1895-1905; traveling lecturer, 1905-18.

WRITINGS:

Kiowa: The History of a Blanket Indian Mission, Fleming H. Revell (New York, NY), 1915, published as Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory, introduction by Clyde Ellis, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1998.

Joyful Journey: Highlights of the High Way; An Autobiography, Judson Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1951.

A Jolly Journal (autobiography), Fleming H. Revell (New York, NY), 1932.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Crawford, Isabel, Kiowa: The History of a Blanket Indian Mission, Fleming H. Revell (New York, NY), 1915, published as Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory, introduction by Clyde Ellis, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1998.

Crawford, Isabel, Joyful Journey: Highlights of the High Way; An Autobiography Judson Press (Philadelphia, PA), 1951.

Crawford, Isabel, A Jolly Journal (autobiography), Fleming H. Revell (New York, NY), 1932.

Religious Leaders of America, 2nd edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1999.

PERIODICALS

American Indian Quarterly, fall, 1998, Luke E. Lassiter, review of Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory, p. 498.

Foundations, October, 1978, Salvadore Mondello, "Isabel Crawford: The Making of a Missionary."*