By Robert C. Carriker
ISBN-10: 0806127902
ISBN-13: 9780806127903
Clad within the black gown of his priestly order and armed merely with a crucifix, for greater than 1 / 4 of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramped the yankee frontier to deliver peace and faith to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the higher Missouri River country.In this biography, Robert Carriker describes De Smet’s love for the nice American West and the local tribes who lived there, the Potawatomis, Flatheads, Coeur d’Alenes, Kalispels, Blackfeet, Yankton Sioux, and others to whom the Jesuit father carried Christianity. quickly the fellow known as Black gown grew to become recognized during the mountains and plains as a guy of peace and a pal of all Indians.
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Although the Flathead appeal in 1831 went unanswered by the Catholic hierarchy in Saint Louis, Protestant missionary groups answered the Indians' call immediately and decisively. A letter in the March 1, 1833, Christian Advocate and Journal of New York detailed the plea of the Flathead delegation and created a minor sensation among Protestant churches, several of which acted. The Methodists took the field first, dispatching Jason Lee and his nephew Daniel, both ordained ministers, to the Pacific Northwest the next year.
Nicholas Biddle's narrative Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, first published in 1814, had developed quite a following among the privileged, literate families of Europe about the time the young Peter De Smet entered boarding school, so he knew that the captains' great adventure had begun in Pittsburgh, followed the Ohio River, and proceeded up the Mississippi River to a point opposite Saint Louis. Now it would be Peter John's turn to retrace their route to his new home in Missouri.
De Smet's Greatest Adventure: The Third Trip to the Rocky Mountains, 18431846 63 4. New Challenges, 18471851 107 5. Chaplain and Peacemaker, 18521859 138 6. While the Nation Fought a War, 18601865 166 7. Peacemaking during the Sioux War, 18661868 198 8. "A Saint, but a Saint According to His Own Way," 18691873 229 Bibliography 245 Index 251 Page ix Illustrations 1. Youthful portrait of Father De Smet in the 1830s 24 2. St. Mary's among the Flatheads, 1841 54 3. Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, in 184546 112 4.
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