Letters and sketches
Subtitle: with a narrative of a year's residence among the Indian tribes of the Rocky Mountains
By: by P.J. de Smet.
Contributors: Galvin, Thomas, signer.; O'Donnell, Mary Ann., signer.; Fithian, Mathias, publisher.; Evans, Herbert M. 1882-1971, bookseller.; University of Minnesota. Library,; Jesuits.; Pacific Northwest History Collection.
Publisher: M. Fithian
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Missions; Salish Indians; Siksika Indians; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Rocky Mountains -- Description and travel
Other titles: Explanation of the Indian symbolical catechism.
Notes: "Explanation of the Indian symbolical catechism" p. 1-8 at end.

New Sabin, 5180.

Smith, C.W. Pacific Northwest (3rd ed.), 9538.

WSU MASC c. 1 has 244, 12 p. ; c. 2 (boxed) is paged continuously and has 252 numbered pages.

WSU MASC c. 2 lacks "Strength and beauty of the true Church of God", p. 9-10 and "Ode, composed at the first sight of the Rocky Mountains", p. 11-12 at the end of c. 1.

WSU MASC c. 1 signed "Thomas Galvin, Newport, R.I., July 23rd 1875."

WSU MASC c. 1 has false ink stamp of Univ. of Minnesota Library.

WSU MASC c. 2 has bookseller's label of Herbert McLean Evans on front endsheet.

WSU MASC c. 2 signed on back endpaper: "Mary Ann O'Donnell".

WSU MASC copies are: 002-102588068, c. 1; 002-109582999, c. 2.