Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla & Nesqualy, 1846-1879 /:

In 1846, French Canadian-born A.M.A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1847, part of the largest movement over the Oregon Trail to date. During the thirty-two years of Blanchet...

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1. Verfasser: Blanchet, Augustine Magloire Alexander, 1797-1887
Weitere Verfasser: Brown, Roberta Stringham, Killen, Patricia O'Connell
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2013]
Ausgabe:First edition.
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Zusammenfassung:In 1846, French Canadian-born A.M.A. Blanchet was named the first Catholic bishop of Walla Walla in the area soon to become Washington Territory. He arrived at Fort Walla Walla in late September 1847, part of the largest movement over the Oregon Trail to date. During the thirty-two years of Blanchet's tenure in the Northwest, the region underwent profound social and political change as the Hudson's Bay Company moved headquarters and many operations north following the Oregon Treaty, U.S. government and institutions were established, and Native American inhabitants dealt with displacement and discrimination. Blanchet chronicled both his own pastoral and administrative life and his observations on the world around him in a voluminous correspondence - almost nine hundred letters - to religious superiors and colleagues in Montreal, Paris, and Rome; funding organizations; other missionaries; and U.S. officials. This selection of Blanchet's letters provides a fascinating view of Washington Territory as seen through the eyes of an intelligent, devout, energetic, perceptive, and occasionally irascible cleric and administrator. Almost all of Blanchet's correspondence was in French. The editors have chosen forty-five of those letters to translate and annotate, creating a history of early Washington that provides insights into relationships, events, and personalities. A number of the letters provide first-hand glimpses of familiar events, such as the Whitman tragedy, the California gold rush, Indian wars and land displacement, transportation advances, and the domestic material culture of a frontier borderland. Others voice the hardships of historically underrepresented groups, including Native Americans, Métis, and French Canadians, and the experiences of ordinary people in growing population centers such as Seattle, Walla Walla, and Vancouver, Washington. Still others describe the struggle to bring social, medical, and educational institutions to the region, a struggle in which women religious workers played a key role. The letters - and the editors' annotations - provide an engaging and insightful look at an important period in the history of the Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada. --
Beschreibung:"Roberta Stringham Brown is professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University. Patricia O'Connell Killen is professor of religious studies and academic vice president at Gonzaga University."
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0295804580
9780295804583

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