Title: New Indian sketches
First published: 1863
Description: 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.
Subjects: Biography, Catechisms, Catholic Church, Glossaries, vocabularies, Indians of North America, Jesuits, Kootenai language, Kutenai language, Missions, Salish, Salish Catechisms, Salish language, Skitswish Indians, Texts, Coeur d'Alene Indians, Salish Indians
Places: Rocky Mountains, Salish Indians, West (U.S.), West (U.S.).
People: Louise Sighouin (d. 1853), Pierre-Jean de Smet (1801-1873)