MARY AND I ~ FORTY YEARS WITH THE SIOUX. With An Introduction By S.C. Bartlett, D.D.

brown gilt lettered full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper (as issued). old church library discard copy with markings removed. vg cond. binding square & tight. round sticker shadow on spine from old label. minor rubbing to spine top and bottom, ding on front cover. faint stain on rear cover. edges aged looking. scratches from old ticket inside front cover. front flyleaf missing. old vintage name inked on dedication page, otherwise contents free of markings. nice vintage copy. good binding, clean text. first printing of second edition (1880 original). frontis. portrait with tissue guard. 437p. 2 b&w photo illustrations. 6 appendices. american history. american indian history. memoirs. autobiography. biography. religion. history of christianity. sioux uprising. Stephen Return Riggs was a Christian missionary and linguist who spent 40 years living and working among the Dakota people (Sioux). His work included interpreting for the US government during the Sioux Uprising, translating the Bible and other materials into Dakota, and writing a Dakota grammar and dictionary. ~ "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.". …