Foreword
An Appreciation of Father Nicholas Point, Pioneer
Recorder of Indian Life in the Northwest
by John C. Ewers, Smithsonian Institution
page vii
Editor's Introduction
Father Nicholas Point, S.J., 1799-1868
page 1
Father Point's Introduction
Recollection of the Rocky Mountains
page 11
I
Historical Notes
page 19
II
The Flatheads, the Coeur d'Alenes, and the Blackfeet
page 37
III
Hunting the Buffalo
page 119
IV
Winter and Summer Hunts with the Flatheads, the Coeur d'Alenes, and the Blackfeet
page 145
V
A Stay at Fort Lewis on a Journey and a Barge Down the Missouri
page 209
Appendix
Father Nicholas Point's Manuscript—Its History
by Joseph P. Donnelly, S.J.
page 263
Notes 268
Bibliography 273
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