Myron Eells (b.1843) was the second son of Cushing Eells, an American Congregational church missionary, farmer and teacher in Oregon and Washington states. Myron too became a missionary and spent much of his life on the Skokomish Reservation to the west of Puget Sound where his brother Edwin was Indian Agent. This work published in 1886 gives an account of his ten years of missionary work among the Indians from 1874-84 and includes several illustrations.