Voyages aux montagnes Rocheuses, chez les tribes indiennes du vaste territoire de l'Orégon, dépendant des États-Unis d'Amérique
By: Par le R.P. de Smet
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 497, no. 4972
Publisher: L. Lefort
Published: 1845
Place of publication: Lille
Language: fre; eng
Translated from: fre
Format: [microform] /
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Indians of North America; Missions; Salish Indians; Siksika Indians; Description and travel
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 letters were arranged for publication in French (Malines, 1844) by A. van Iseghem, who says that the English edition "contient en substance les mêmes récits, mais avec beaucoup moins détails". cf. Avis, and Backer, Bibl. de la Comp. de Jésus. The present edition omits the Narrative of a year's residence, and several religious writings.

Author's presentation copy "to Mrs. General Frémont."

"Prières en langue Tète-plate et Pondéras": p. [265]-268.

Master microform held by: ResP.

Howes, U.S.IANA, no. D.288