| Preface |
|
1 | (3) |
|
|
|
4 | (7) |
|
Birth of Society of Jesus |
|
|
|
Wonderful growth and power in Downfall and restoration |
|
|
|
Missionary work of Society in America |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Migration to St. Louis in Founding of the Florissant Novitiate The St. Louis University |
|
|
|
Indian missions entrusted to Jesuits |
|
|
|
Field of labor in Far West |
|
|
|
Early Life Of Father De Smet |
|
|
11 | (8) |
|
|
|
|
Choice of missionary career |
|
|
|
Leaves Belgium for America |
|
|
|
Enters Whitemarsh Novitiate |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Helps found Novitiate and University |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sends contributions to University |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Work at the Potawatomi Mission |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Describes evils of liquor traffic among the Indians |
|
|
|
A Romance of An Indian Mission |
|
|
19 | (10) |
|
Nez Perce and Flathead Indians |
|
|
|
The Iroquois among the Flatheads |
|
|
|
Deputation of 1831 to St. Louis |
|
|
|
Fact and fiction concerning same |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Its far-reaching influence |
|
|
|
The Protestants send missionaries to Oregon |
|
|
|
New deputation from the Flatheads |
|
|
|
The Jesuits decide to respond |
|
|
|
|
|
29 | (12) |
|
Father De Smet detailed for the Flathead Mission |
|
|
|
Journey across the plains |
|
|
|
Meeting with Flathead envoys |
|
|
|
The welcome at Pierre's Hole |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gratitude of Father De Smet |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Father De Smet starts home |
|
|
|
Passage of the Crow country |
|
|
|
Interesting intercourse with the Crows |
|
|
|
Dangerous journey to Fort Union |
|
|
|
Journey down the Missouri |
|
|
|
Agreeable encounter with the Sioux |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disappointment in regard to funds |
|
|
|
Father De Smet seeks contributions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Second journey across the plains |
|
|
|
Founding of St. Mary's Mission among the Flatheads |
|
|
|
Difficulties and set-backs |
|
|
|
Journey to Fort Colville and return |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Visit to Fort Vancouver and the Willamette |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
41 | (12) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sails for Oregon via Cape Horn |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crossing the Columbia bar |
|
|
|
Activities in the Willamette valley |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Winter among the Kalispels |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Again visits the upper country |
|
|
|
Starts in search of the Blackfeet |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Failure to find Blackfeet |
|
|
|
Passes winter at Fort Augustus |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Extent of Oregon Missions |
|
|
|
Return to St. Mary Mission |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Battle between Crows and Flatheads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Voyage by skiff down the Missouri |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Great Council Of 1851 |
|
|
53 | (7) |
|
Trials and discouragements |
|
|
|
Restlessness of the Plains tribes |
|
|
|
Government decides to hold council |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Departure on overland journey to Fort Laramie |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arrival at the council ground |
|
|
|
Proceedings of the council |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Utah and Oregon Expeditions |
|
|
60 | (8) |
|
|
|
|
Shipwreck of the Humboldt |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Military expedition under Harney |
|
|
|
De Smet accompanies as chaplain |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Expedition interrupted-Yakima war in Oregon Harney sent thither |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pacification of the Oregon Indians |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arrival at Voyage by skiff to Omaha |
|
|
|
Thence by steamer to St. Louis |
|
|
|
Journeyings At Home and Abroad. 1860-1866 |
|
|
68 | (11) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Outbreak of the Rebellion |
|
|
|
Business journeys to Washington |
|
|
|
Voyage to Fort Benton in 1862 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Campaigns of Sibley and Sully |
|
|
|
Voyage to Fort Benton 1863 |
|
|
|
Stopped by low water at Milk River |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Danger of return by river |
|
|
|
Decides to return via Panama |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The situation in the Sioux country |
|
|
|
Peace mission to Sioux in 1864 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Voyage to Fort Benton, 1866 |
|
|
|
Peace Commissions Of 1867 and 1868 |
|
|
79 | (13) |
|
Critical situation in Indian country |
|
|
|
Father De Smet, 1867, goes on peace mission to the Sioux |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On way back meets Peace Commission |
|
|
|
Invited to accompany them |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Father De Smet goes to Fort Rice |
|
|
|
Starts in quest of hostile camp |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deputies sent to meet commissioners |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Father De Smet's great services |
|
|
|
Character Of Father De Smet |
|
|
92 | (10) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Visit to the Sioux country in 1870 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Indian and the Missionary |
|
|
102 | (10) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interesting intercourse with the tribes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comparison of Protestant and Catholic methods |
|
|
|
Great obstacles to success |
|
|
|
The destruction of the field by white settlement |
|
|
|
Views Upon Public Affairs |
|
|
112 | (8) |
|
Father De Smet an active observer of public events |
|
|
|
The growth of the United States |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The anti-Catholic movement |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Test Oath in Missouri |
|
|
|
|
|
120 | (8) |
|
Description of the Missouri River |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Indian history and traditions |
|
|
|
Origin of Father De Smet's letters |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Literary records and data |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Partial list of publications |
|
|
|
Part One The Potawatomi Mission. 1838-1839 |
|
|
128 | (40) |
|
Itinerary of Father De Smet from 1821 to 1839 inclusive |
|
|
|
Journey To Council Bluffs |
|
|
131 | (8) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inconveniences of river navigation |
|
|
|
The Otoes and their minister |
|
|
|
First touch of Indian life |
|
|
|
Disappointing reception by the Potawatomies |
|
|
|
Beginning of missionary work |
|
|
|
Comments on the Situation |
|
|
139 | (10) |
|
|
|
|
Kickapoos, Sauks, Iowas and Otoes |
|
|
|
Hindrances to conversion of Indians on the frontiers |
|
|
|
The Pawnees prefer Catholic priests |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Omahas come and dance |
|
|
|
The Indian Question in 1838 |
|
|
|
Notes on the country-Missionary progress |
|
|
|
Daily Life at the Mission |
|
|
149 | (7) |
|
A missionary journal in Major Dougherty |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
How the Indians spent $90,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Protestant ministers leaving |
|
|
|
Peace mission to the Sioux |
|
|
|
Excursion to the Sioux Country |
|
|
156 | (12) |
|
First knowledge of the Sioux |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss of vessel with mission supplies |
|
|
|
Lights and shadows of life among the natives |
|
|
|
Surreptitious baptism of children |
|
|
|
Blackbird, the great Omaha chief |
|
|
|
The recent smallpox epidemic |
|
|
|
Honorable reception among the Yankton Sioux |
|
|
|
Return downstream in a canoe |
|
|
|
First experience of out-door life |
|
|
|
Part Two The Flathead Mission |
|
|
168 | (168) |
|
Itinerary for the Years 1840, 1841 and 1842 |
|
|
|
St. Louis To Green River Rendezvous |
|
|
172 | (15) |
|
Steamboat journey to Westport |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Start overland with Fur Company caravan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Antelope, prairie-dogs, buffalo and wolves |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Camp of the Cheyennes on Laramie Fork |
|
|
|
|
|
|
First view of the Rocky Mountains |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Green River Rendezvous To Three Forks of Missouri |
|
|
187 | (15) |
|
The rendezvous on Green river |
|
|
|
First meeting with the Flatheads |
|
|
|
Makes friends also with the Snakes |
|
|
|
Their manners and customs |
|
|
|
Four days' rest on Green river |
|
|
|
Sets out with the Flatheads for their country |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Crossing Snake river in a bag |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Across the mountains Into Montana |
|
|
|
The plain of the Three Forks |
|
|
|
Return From Three Forks to St. Louis |
|
|
202 | (22) |
|
Affecting departure from the Flatheads |
|
|
|
Across Bozeman Pass to the Yellowstone |
|
|
|
Danger from prowling Indians |
|
|
|
Meets a camp of the Crows |
|
|
|
Two days' observations of that tribe |
|
|
|
More Crows on the Big Horn |
|
|
|
Their poor prospects in the next world |
|
|
|
Flathead escort returns from first trading post |
|
|
|
Alone with the grenadier in the desert |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
An account of the Aricaras |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Encounters with the Sioux |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ten days in a canoe among floating ice |
|
|
|
Council Bluffs, Westport and St. Louis |
|
|
|
A Second Account of the Journey of 1840 |
|
|
224 | (10) |
|
The start from Westport again |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Cheyennes willing to receive missionaries |
|
|
|
The polyglot mass at the rendezvous |
|
|
|
How the Flatheads and Pend d'Oreilles welcomed him |
|
|
|
They learn their prayers and many receive baptism |
|
|
|
The return journey eastward |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Across the desert and down the river |
|
|
|
St. Louis To The Platte River---1841 |
|
|
234 | (14) |
|
How Father De Smet raised the money to keep his promises to the Flatheads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The mixed company that started |
|
|
|
|
|
|
A visit to the Kansas Indians in their village |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
From The Platte River To The Bitter Root Valley |
|
|
248 | (22) |
|
The ``Flathead Embassies'' |
|
|
|
Meeting with the forerunners of the tribe |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Parting from the American emigrants |
|
|
|
Friendly though disagreeing |
|
|
|
Devil's Gate on the Sweetwater |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mountain trails and amateur teamsters |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Over the divide to Fort Hall |
|
|
|
Meeting with the Flathead escort |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northward to the Deer Lodge valley |
|
|
|
|
|
|
River crossings and Indian alarms |
|
|
|
Interview with the Bannocks |
|
|
|
Founding Of St. Mary's Mission |
|
|
270 | (23) |
|
Arrival on banks of Bitter Root river and founding of St. Mary's mission |
|
|
|
Coeur d'Alene Indians solicit missionaries |
|
|
|
Other well-disposed tribes |
|
|
|
The problem of the Blackfeet |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plan to make them the nursery for a vast Christian community |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Church and farm buildings |
|
|
|
Futile opposition of the devil |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Father Point goes to the winter hunt |
|
|
|
Journey To Fort Colville and Return. Autumn of 1841 |
|
|
293 | (15) |
|
Need of provisions and seeds |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kalispels raising potatoes |
|
|
|
Scenery and dangers of Clark's Fork |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Adam and Eve and the buffalo fat |
|
|
|
Hell unchained among the Kalispels |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Affairs At St. Mary's 1841-2 |
|
|
308 | (9) |
|
Miraculous apparition to Flathead youth on Christmas eve |
|
|
|
Point's hardships on the buffalo hunt |
|
|
|
Visitors from the Blackfeet |
|
|
|
Fame of the Flatheads growing |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Journey To Vancouver And The Willamette And Return--1842 |
|
|
317 | (19) |
|
|
|
|
Visit to the Kalispels and Kootenais |
|
|
|
Digestive feats of the natives |
|
|
|
Beginning of work among the Coeur d'Alenes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Protestant missionaries' methods |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Visit to the Skoyelpi and Okinagans |
|
|
|
Accident to interpreter Charles |
|
|
|
Down Columbia in Ogden's barge |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meets Blanchet and Demers at Vancouver |
|
|
|
Kindness of Dr. McLoughlin |
|
|
|
Mortality among inhabitants |
|
|
|
Across country from Walla Walla |
|
|
|
Follows Flatheads after buffalo |
|
|
|
Decides to return to States |
|
|
|
Return To St. Louis In Fall Of 1842 |
|
|
336 | (1) |
|
Safely through Blackfoot country |
|
|
|
Agreeable visit with the Crows |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Continues journey with small escort |
|
|
|
Through the dark and bloody ground |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Perils of Upper River navigation |
|
|
|
Safe arrival at St. Louis |
|
|
Other versions by this Author
