Mary and I

A black bear pushes aside the quilt hanging over a log-cabin doorway and sits on its haunches, studying Stephen Riggs’s mother and her three children. Then, astonishingly, it turns and leaves.

Writing in 1877, Riggs looks back to the choices that brought him and Mary from very different beginnings toward a life among the Dakota. His path from Ohio and Mary Longley’s from Massachusetts converge through teaching, faith and a growing sense of calling. In the 1830s, with little idea of the hardships ahead, they set out west as missionaries. Fort Snelling is their first destination—and the threshold of forty years with the Sioux. What will they find at the frontier, and what will their shared vocation ask of them?

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