Mary and I: Forty Years with the SiouxRiggs, Stephen Return
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Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux
Riggs, Stephen Return
Dakota Indians -- Missions; Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883
"The next day being the Sabbath, we went on only as far as we
deemed necessary for perfect safety. Toward evening my father
held divine service, which was almost the only outward reminder
that it was the Lord's Day. People coming and going--bustle
here, there, and everywhere--so different from our last quiet
Sabbath at home, the last time we and our dear Indians
gathered together around the table of our Lord, and perhaps
the last time we ever shall, until we meet in the kingdom. The
next morning our party separated, our family, with Mr. and Mrs.
Moore, Mrs. Williamson and second daughter, and two or three
others, continuing on the Henderson road, and the rest striking
across to St. Peter, where Dr. Williamson has found abundant
work in the hospitals. Near there his family expect to remain
during the winter.
"We arrived that afternoon in Henderson, a town a hundred miles
from home, and we had been a week on the way. 'Why, I thought
you were all killed!' was the first greeting of every one. A
shoe store was hunted up before we proceeded to Shakopee,
having first bidden a Godspeed to our friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Moore. By this time some of us 'young folks' had acquired such
a liking for walking that we consider it superior to any other
mode of locomotion to this day; and if it had not been that we
were so ragged and dirty and foot-sore, we should have
preferred to continue our journey. During that week our ideas
of paradise grew very limited, being comprised in having an
abundance of water, some clean clothes, plenty to eat, and a
nice bed to sleep in.
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