Voyages aux montagnes Rocheuses, et une année de séjour chez les tribus indiennes du vaste territoire de l'Orégon, dépendant des Etats-Unis d'Amérique / par le r. p. Pierre de Smet ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smet, Pierre-Jean de, 1801-1873.

Contributor:

Iseghem, A. F. van (André F.), 1799-1869.

Jesuits.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Missions.

Indians of North America.

Salish Indians.

Siksika Indians.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

Rocky Mountains.

Rocky Mountains Region.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

2 preliminary leaves, iii unnumbered pages-vi, 304 pages : frontispiece (portrait) 1 illustration, plates, folded map. ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Malines : P.J. Hanicq, imprimeur, 1844.

Notes:

First published in an English edition: Letters and sketches, with a narrative of a year's residence among the Indian tribes of the Rocky mountains, Philadelphia, 1843. The present work is the first French edition, and includes material not in the American ed. cf. Sabin, v. 20, p. 137. The letters were arranged for publication in French by André van Iseghem. cf. Backer, Bibl. de la Comp. de Jesus, and Biographie nationale, Bruxelles, 1888-89, t. 10.

"Prières en langue Tête-plate et Pondéras": p. 80-82.

New material has been added to the Malines edition, with more details and more plates.

Cited in:

Sabin, 82272

Wagner-Camp, 102

Streeter IV, 2097

Related Work:

Jesuits. Letters from missions (North America).

OCLC:

22015019