calsfoundation@cals.org
November 8, 2007
In 1820, Cephas Washburn helped found Dwight Mission in Pope County, the first Protestant effort directed at the education and conversion of Native Americans in Arkansas. As superintendent of the mission, Washburn assisted many displaced Cherokee who had ventured to Arkansas. The posthumous publication of his Reminiscences of the Indians in 1869 provides valuable information about pioneer days in Arkansas.