1863. · New York
by De Smet, Pierre-Jean
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1863.. 175pp. plus plate and frontispiece. 12mo. Original brown pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed, lightly faded and edgeworn. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown. An occasional fox mark. Very good overall. The famed missionary's account of his travels as U.S. army chaplain during the Mormon hostilities of 1858-59, traversing the region from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearny and back, to the Pacific via Panama, Fort Vancouver and the northern Rockies, then east to St. Louis. Includes a partial vocabulary of the Skalzi tribe and a catechism as used by the Flatheads, Kalispels, and Pend d'Oreilles with the English equivalent. HOWES D285, "aa." STREETER SALE 3071. SABIN 82267. FIELD 1427 (later ed). WAGNER-CAMP 395. GRAFF 3828. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3631. PILLING, SALISHAN, p.64. PILLING, SIOUAN, p.71. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (FLATHEAD) 1, (KALISPEL) 9, (KUTENAI) 18. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 80 (note).
(Inventory #: WRCAM48070)