CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVII

I

The Far West; or, A Tour beyond the Mountains. EmbracingOutlines of Western Life and Scenery; Sketchesof the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlementsof the French, etc., etc. (Chapters xxxiii-xli of Vol. II,completing the publication). Edmund Flagg

Author's Table of Contents[15]
Text[19]
II

Letters and Sketches: with a Narrative of a Year's Residenceamong the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains.Pierre Jean de Smet, S. J.

Author's Preface[129]
Text:
BOOK I: Letters I-XII, February 4-December 30, 1841[133]
BOOK II: Narrative of a Year's Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains (comprised in Letters XIII-XVI, August 15-November 1, 1842)[321]
Explanation of the Indian Symbolical Catechism[405]

The Far West; or, A Tour beyond the Mountains. Embracing Outlines of Western Life and Scenery; Sketches of the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlements of the French, etc., etc. (Chapters xxxiii-xli of Vol. II, completing the publication). Edmund Flagg

Letters and Sketches: with a Narrative of a Year's Residence among the Indian Tribes of the Rocky Mountains. Pierre Jean de Smet, S. J.

ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XXVII

"A View of the Rocky Mountains." From De Smet's Letters and Sketches[Frontispiece]
Allegorical sketch[126]
Facsimile of title-page, De Smet's Letters and Sketches[127]
"Worship in the Desert"[139]
"Kanza Village"[195]
"Interior of a Kanza Lodge"[203]
"Chimney"[217]
"Devil's Gate"[239]
"Soda Springs"[245]
"Fording the River Platte"[271]
"Sheyenne Warriors"[275]
"Indian Mode of Travelling"[325]
"Apparition"[345]
"Indian Symbolical Catechism"—folding plate[403]