Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mary and I, by Stephen Return Riggs, et al
STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D.D., LL.D.
BY STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D.D., LL.D. MISSIONARY TO THE DAKOTAS, AND AUTHOR OF “DAKOTA GRAMMAR AND DICTIONARY,” “GOSPEL AMONG THE DAKOTAS,” ETC.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. S. C. BARTLETT, D.D. PRESIDENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
BOSTON Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society CONGREGATIONAL HOUSE
Copyright, 1880, by Stephen R. Riggs.
Copyright, 1887, by Congregational S. S. and Publishing Society.
Electrotyped by C. J. Peters and Son, Boston.
To My Children, ALFRED, ISABELLA, MARTHA, ANNA, THOMAS, HENRY, ROBERT, CORNELIA, AND EDNA; TOGETHER WITH ALL THE GRANDCHILDREN GROWING UP INTO THE MISSIONARY INHERITANCE OF THEIR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

This book I have inscribed to my own family. It will be of interest to them, as, in part, a history of their father and mother, in the toils and sacrifices and rewards of commencing and carrying forward the work of evangelizing the Dakota people.
Many others, who are interested in the uplifting of the Red Men, may be glad to obtain glimpses, in these pages, of the inside of Missionary Life in what was, not long since, the Far West; and to trace the threads of the in-weaving of a Christ-life into the lives of many of the Sioux nation.