The Life of Father De Smet SJ
Apostle of the Rocky Mountains
By: Fr. E. Laveille S.J.
The Life of Father De Smet SJ. What a story! Fr. Pierre De Smet (1801-1873) is mentioned in U.S. history books almost as a footnote, but there was in the mid-19th century America no single person the American Indians trusted as they did this Jesuit Priest. He was more powerful than an army at a huge treaty conference of U.S. officials and the Western Indian nations near Laramie in 1851, and he was the chief negotiator at another, with the Sioux, in 1868. Impr. 400 pgs, PB
