This book was written with the prayer and desire that our blessed Lord will use it for His glory to enable His people to enjoy all that He has provided for them. Dr. Ernest Childs was saved at the age of 29.

The narrative memoir of an early Dakota settler and Ozark snake farmer (his snake farm and snake oil operation near Chadwick, Mo. was evidently something of a local wonder in the 1890s) who, when given the choice, appears to have lived in ...