Papers from a conference held at Utah State University, Aug. 6-7, 1982, which was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Cyrus Byington and the Presbyterian Choctaw Mission / W. David Baird -- John Jasper Methvin: Methodist 'missionary to the western tribes' (Oklahoma) / Bruce David Forbes -- The Mormons, the Indians, and George Washington Bean / Floyd A. O'Neil -- Joseph M. Cataldo, S.J.: courier of Catholicism to the Nez Perces / Robert C. Carriker -- Albert K. Smiley: friend to friends of the Indians / Clyde A. Milner II -- 'Straight Tongue's heathen wards': Bishop Whipple and the Episcopal Mission to the Chippewas / Martin N. Zanger.