Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux

The author offers a personal narrative of decades spent as a missionary among the Dakota, recounting daily frontier life, domestic hardships, teaching, and the long work of learning the language and preparing Dakota grammar, dictionary, and translations of Scripture. He combines vivid scenes of cultural exchange, conversions, and perilous journeys with reflections on patience, sacrifice, and missionary methods. Practical details about founding schools, household routines, and community relations sit alongside appeals for fair treatment and civic inclusion of Indigenous people, and an appendix gathers later monographs documenting the mission's subsequent developments.