New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Large octavo with red cloth boards and black spine title; white pictorial DJ; xvi, 512 pages: illustrations, maps (some folded), portraits; 26 cm About good to good(+) jacket with visible chipping, some small tears repaired with tape and sunning/damp-staining to spine; a VG (+) copy, tight and clean with Ex Libris sticker on front flyleaf. Hardcover.
A scholarly examination of the role of the Jesuit missionaries in the Indian wars of the Pacific Northwest. Includes considerable materials on the role of Father Hoecken in the negotiations of the Flathead, Pend d'Oreilles, and Kootenai tribes with the government in 1855. Hell Gate treatyContents: Two worlds: Red men and white (1840-1880). The Jesuit and the red man. The white man makes a treaty. War on the empty plains. The shadow of war. Colonel Steptoe's last stand. The war against the Northern Indians. Peace created and consolidated. Drums along the Rockies (1877). Meeting of eagles: Joseph's hostiles in Montana.
