Apostle of the Rocky Mountains, The Life of Fr. De Smet, S.J. by Fr. E. Laveille, S. J.
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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. He was invited to the White House in 1867 to a conference with the Indians.
Read more about Father De Smet in this great book filled with powerful passages.
TAN Books, 400 pages.
