Mary and I Forty Years With The Sioux by Riggs,Stephen R - 1887

Corner House, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x1. 388 pages : portraits; 22 x 15 cm. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Light wear/tears to dust jacket. Jacket price clipped. Foxing to edges.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

W. G. Holmes, 1880. Hardcover. Good. good solid and tight worn about edges

Boston: Congregational House, 1887. Hardcover. Very good. Publisher's cloth lettered in gilt on the front and spine. With monographs by Nina Foster Riggs and Rev. Gideon H. Pond. Worn at head, heal and extremities, hinge of title page is fragile. Lacks front-free endpaper and adhesive damage to the front paste-down, otherwise a sound copy. Later edition of Sabin 71339 (1880).

W. G. Holmes, Chicago.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Referenced in Eberstadt III: 519: "Early days and history of the Northwest; Journey to the Missouri River; the Sioux Massacre; General Sibley's Expedition; Captivity among the Indians, etc. " (Howes: R288) . 388 pages. Original brown cloth. A very nice copy of this now scarce book. Book is in Near Fine condition.; Standard Book Size. .

Chicago: W. G. Holmes, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. [2], xx, [1], 388 pages, [1]. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and a second plate of "Mary and I." Green cloth binding with gilt title "Mary and I" on the front cover and gilt stamped title on the spine. Light edge wear to cloth extremities. Faded areas to the cloth covers. Pencil name of Mrs. E. E. Hays written on the right front flyleaf. Riggs was a Missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. He authored "Dakota Grammar and Dictionary" and "Gospel Among the Dakotas". Introduction written by Rev. S. C. Bartlett, President of Dartmouth College. Howes R 289; Sabin 71339.

RIGGS, Stephen R. Mary and I. Forty Years with the Sioux. With an Introduction by Rev. S.C. Bartlett. Boston: (1887). Illus. with ports. 437pp. Orig. cloth. Very good copy. Howes R-288. Howes R-288. Memoirs of one of the leading missionaries to the Sioux, and translator of many Sioux language items.

Chicago: W.G. Holmes, 1880.. xx,388pp. plus two plates. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Cloth a bit rubbed and stained, hinges cracked with early glue repairs. Light scattered foxing, ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Good plus. Memoirs of one of the leading missionaries to the Sioux, and translator of many Sioux language items. The Riggs family began their mission at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota, in 1837 and worked mainly in that state. He was one of the earliest missionaries that the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions sent to work among native Americans, and these memoirs cover his life among the Santee in the Dakota Territory from 1837 into the 1870s. Riggs is responsible for a huge body of language studies of, and translations into, the Santee and other Dakota tongues. An important memoir. HOWES R288.