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Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet - Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy (1846-1879) (Paperback)
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Selected Letters of A. M. A. Blanchet - Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy (1846-1879) (Paperback)
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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. Roberta Stringham Brown and Patricia
O'Connell Killen have chosen forty-five of those letters to
translate and annotate, creating a history of early Washington that
provides new 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, Metis, and
French Canadians, and the experiences of ordinary people in growing
population centers such as Seattle, Walla Walla, and Vancouver,
Wash-ington. 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' fascinating annotations-provide an engaging and
insightful look at an important period in the history of the
Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada.
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