Wilderness Kingdom Indian Life in the Rocky Mountains: 1840-1847 The Journals & Painting of Nicolas Point, S.J.

  • Hardcover
  • New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967
By Point, Nicolas
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper lacking pieces. 274 pages. 285 of Father Point's paintings, 232 full-color are reproduced.. Translated and introduced by Joseph P. Donnelly, with an Appreciation by John C. Ewers. Bibliography. Father Point's paintings offer the only first hand information we have on the ethnology of the Indians in the Northern American Rockies -- particularly, the Blackfeet, the Cour d' Alenes; and the modest, frank and courageous Flatheads.

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