NEW INDIAN SKETCHES
BY PIERRE-JEAN DE SMET
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 Flathead, Kalispels, and Pend d'Oreilles, with the English equivalent.
The letters were published in French in 1860 in the Précis Historiques (from "lettre 53" onwards), translated into English by Robert A. Bakewell from Saint Louis, first printed in 1863 by D. & J. Sadler Co. Boston, reprinted in 1865, 70, 85, 86 by Sadler Co. New York and in 1895 and 1904 by Kennedy, New York.