LIFE, LETTERS AND TRAVELS
of
FATHER PIERRE-JEAN DE SMET, S. J. 1801-1873
Missionary Labors and Adventures among the Wild Tribes of the North American Indians, Embracing Minute Description of Their Manners, Customs, Games, Modes of Warfare and Torture, Legends, Tradition, etc., All from Personal Observations Made during Many Thousand Miles of Travel, with Sketches of the Country from St. Louis to Puget Sound and the Altrabasca
Edited from the original unpublished manuscript Journals and Letter Books and from his Printed Works with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological and other Notes; Also a Life of Father De Smet
MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
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HIRAM MARTIN CHITTENDEN Major, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A.
AND
ALFRED TALBOT RICHARDSON
RFV. PIERRE.JEAN DE SMET S. J.
FO UR VOL UMES VOL. I V
NEW YORK FRANCIS P. HARPER 1905
CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
CHAPTER XIV.
PAGE.
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS RELATING TO THE INDIANS . 1213-1227
PART VIII. MISSIONARY WORK AMONG THE INDIANS. CHAPTER I.
THE FLATHEAD AND OTHER MISSIONS . 1228-1249
CHAPTER II. LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT MISSIONARIES . 1250-126)1
CHAPTER III. TRIBUTES TO THE FLATHEADS AND OTHER TRIBES . 126)2-2278
CHAPTER IV. PLANS FOR A SIOUX MISSION . 1279-1304
CHAPTER V.
MISCELLANEOUS MISSIONARY NOTES . 1305-1344
PART IX. MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS. CHAPTER I.
NOTES ON THE WESTERN COUNTRY .. . 1345-1354
CHAPTER II.
THE MISSOURI RIVER .1355-1387
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER III.
PAGF
FAUNA AND FLORA . 13$8-1401
CHAPTER IV.
THE MORMONS . 1402-1415
CHAPTER V.
INDIAN ANECDOTES . I4I6-I42o
CHAPTER VI.
OBSERVATIONS UPON AMERICA . I42I-1450
CHAPTER VII:
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION . 1451-1462
CHAPTER VIII.
UNCLASSIFIED LETTERS, LARGELY PERSONAL . 1463-1548
CHAPTER IX.
SELECTED LETTERS RECEIVED . 1549-1591
CHAPTER X.
FUNERAL ORATION ON FATHER DE SMET . 1592-1600