Notes of a missionary priest in the Rocky Mountains
Subtitle: sketches
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 212, no. 2164.
Publisher: Christian Press Association
Published: 1898
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Gibbons, J. J.; Catholic Church -- Clergy.; Colorado -- Description and travel.
Notes: Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research Publications, 1975. -- 1 reel ; 35 mm. -- (Western Americana : frontier history of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900 ; reel 212, no. 2164)
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: FIRST SKETCH; title: First Experiences in the San Juan - Land of mountains and plains - Home of the Cliff-Dwellers - Mummy apostrophized - Trip to Telluride - Young Canadian falls over a precipice - A flourishing mining camp - Silverton in Christmas attire - The "Gloria in Excelsis" - The sacred strains in the midnight air - Perilous night ride. 7 - 25; title: SECOND SKETCH; title: Funeral in the Rockies - A daring and expert horseman - The cowboy and the wild broncho - Sensational drilling contest - Chattanooga's two inhabitants - Sunset on Ophir's range - Disaster befalls a tenderfoot - Skeleton recalls a tragedy - "Marry in haste, and repent at leisure" - Mountains echo the "Requiescant in pace" - A sudden storm. 26 - 38; title: THIRD SKETCH; title: From Dallas to Telluride - A genial stage-driver - A hero of the Crimea - Fatal accident at the Sheridan - A picturesque canon - Dreadful catastrophes - Train of burros - Sequel of right line movement - Religious services at Telluride - Summoned in haste to a deathbed. 39 - 55; title: FOURTH SKETCH; title: A Social and Religious Center - Hospitable family on the Divide - Pastoral scene - Excursion party in the interests of science and religion - A few shots from a rifle bring relief in a dilemma - Medicine administered at the point of a gun - Sick call to Turkey Creek - An invalid and his queer nurse - Curiosity punished - Navajo Indian - Trout Lake, a romantic spot - Fifty-five miles in the saddle. 56 - 71; title: FIFTH SKETCH; title: Celebration of a Festival - An unhappy marriage - Bear Creek Falls festooned with snow - The Mother Cline snowslide - Ironton's unique character - Hairbreadth escape in a storm - Racy ballad, "Patrick's Day in the Morning" - Sick-bed conversions - The hospital, from a missionary standpoint. 72 - 63; title: SIXTH SKETCH; title: Thrilling Incidents of a Hunting Trip - Superior qualities of the broncho - Breakneck race down cork screw trail - The deer that never came - The Cascade of Ouray - Mountain scenery at its best - The bear and the prospectors - "The burnt child dreads the fire" - The mountain lion - The Snowslide in verse - Perplexing situation - The welcome stream - Home again. 84 - 103; title: SEVENTH SKETCH; title: A Devoted Mother in Adversity - A captain meets reverses of fortune - Sad deathbed scene - Manual and Industrial training of the young - Education in the right line - Solemn religious service at early morn - By the Hermosa - A red haired stranger - A "friend in need is a friend indeed" - Strange chorus in a storm - Verses on the burro, "He's a bird - a true canary." 104 - 119; title: EIGHTH SKETCH; title: The Blasphemer's Fate - Some of Ouray's sociable characters - Life above timber line - Appalling misfortune - Prince, the beautiful setter - Faithful friends lost in an avalanche - Edifying death of a miner - Told in verse by a local poet "Only the Actions of the Just, Smell sweet and blossom in the dust" 120 - 137; title: NINTH SKETCH; title: Baneful Effects of Intemperance - John, the soldier - Spending a fortune - "Nothing heavenly in the miser" - A promising career ruined by drink - Reflections upon the evils of intemperance - Triumph of grace - Reconciliation - "All's well that ends well." 138 - 153; title: TENTH SKETCH; title: Ten Days on a Sick Call - Old Gray, the horse with one ear - On a hogback - Dolores and the early missionaries - Attending a sick man under difficulties - A tidy bachelor's hall - Dies on his way to the lowlands - How funeral expenses were defrayed - A mail carrier, faithful in death - Ingenious use made of an ulster. 154 - 166; title: ELEVENTH SKETCH; title: Virtue, the only Nobility - The boys of Donegal - Pleasant companions on a stagecoach - Rico's second boom - Telluride's bank robbery - Sheriff's posse in pursuit of robbers - Baptism at the Springs - Weird scene at early dawn - Death's lesson. 167 - 182; title: TWELFTH SKETCH; title: Colorado among the States - Her people and her resources - San Juan's future - A great city of the southwest - "Fountain of Perpetual Youth" - Las Animas canon - Sublime scenery - How a mine is worked - A miner's mode of living - His intelligence - A land "where the peach and apple grow" - Ouray, the Picturesque. 183 - 194