Among the Sioux : a story of the Twin Cities and the two Dakotas

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Who, for forty years has been my faithful companion in the toils and triumphs of missionary service for the Freedmen of the Old Southwiest and the heroic pioneers of the New Northwest, this volume is affectionately inscribed.

By the Author,

R. J. Creswell.

INTRODUCTION

By the Rev. David R. Breed, D.D.

The sketches which make up this little volume are of absorbing interest, and are prepared by one who is abundantly qualified to do so. J\lr. Creswell has had large personal acquaintance with many of those of whom he writes and has for years been a diligent student of missionary effort among- the Sioux. His frequent contributions to the periodicals on this subject have received marked attention. Several of them he gathers together and reprints in this volume, so that while it is not a consecutive ' history of the Sioux missions it furnishes an admirable survey of the labors of the heroic men and women who have spent their lives in this cause, and furnishes even more interesting reading in their biographies that might have been given upon the other plan.

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