Journal of the Southern Indian Mission;: Diary of Thomas D. Brown

From the Introduction: This brief journal is very significant for the Great Basin for several reasons: First, it pictures vividly the Indians in their primitive state, before they had come into any contact with the white man; second, it portrays the dedication the fervor of the missionaries assigned to this hopeless task; third, it gives in minute detail the doings of this group in the physical labor of clearing land, securing water, and planting crops as well as n their religious gatherings, where with song and prayer and exhortation they sustained each other.