Description: My People of the Plains by the right reverend Ethelbert Talbot, Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. A memoir of Reverend Talbot's experiences & missionary work during the eleven years in which he ministered as a bishop to the pioneers of the Rocky mountain region embraced in the territory now included in the states of Wyoming and Idaho. This antique book is historically important and it is a fascinating record of a bygone era. My People of the Plains is a “vivacious and veracious transcript of a fascinating stage in the evolution of the West, a life that is fast becoming a memory, and Bishop Talbot has rendered a service in preserving some of its more picturesque features and characters in his story.” (The Independent, January 3, 1907). Ethelbert Talbot (October 9, 1848 – February 27, 1928) was the fifteenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Contents: Wyoming and Idaho in 1887 My First Missionary Journey Old Chief Washakie A Mining-Camp in Idaho A Visit to Clayton Gulch In and Out of the Stage-Coach The Coeur d'Alene Country The Tenderfoot and Old Pete Some Wyoming and Idaho Missionaries Two Familiar Types Here and There Among My Flock A Month in the Woods Tessy Making the Work Known Mormonism and the Mormons The Red-Man and Uncle Sam CONDITION: This Book is in good condition. Book shows normal fairly minor sign of storage & age. Tight binding, clean text. The cover is a bit scuffed. Pages have turned yellow from age. Foxing to paper commensurate with age. There are embossed stamps from the previous owner on the endpapers at the front of the book and on the title page. The page that contains the illustration of Rev. Sherman Coolidge is detached but present. Please see pictures. THE PICTURES ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE REVIEW THEM FOR A BETTER IDEA OF CONDITION.
Price: 70 USD
Location: Claremont, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Topics: Episcopal Church, Christianity, Christianism, Anglicanism
Subtopic: Historic, Missionaries, Description and travel
Book Title: My People of the Plains
Signed: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Subject: True Story, History, Nonfiction, Biographies, American History
Modified Item: No
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1906
Places: Wyoming, Idaho
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Antique Book, Tissue Guard, ETHELBERT TALBOT (Frontispiece), REV. JOHN ROBERTS AND HIS INDIAN SCHOOL (ILLUS), REV. SHERMAN COOLIDGE (ILLUS), OLD CHIEF WASHAKIE (ILLUS), BISHOP TALBOT (ILLUS), THE LARAMIE CATHEDRAL (ILLUS), ABIEL LEONARD, BISHOP OF SALT LAKE (ILLUS), BRIGHAM YOUNG (ILLUS), THE MORMON TEMPLE, SALT LAKE (ILLUS), AN INDIAN TEPEE ON WIND RIVER RESERVATION (ILLUS), SHOSHONE INDIAN MISSION (ILLUS)
Author: Reverend Ethelbert Talbot
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Genre: Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, History
Subtopics: criticism of Mormonism, polygamy, Mormon Church, Native Americans
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Wyoming, Idaho, evangelization, religion, Eastern Shoshone Tribe
Subjects: True Stories, Personal narratives, U.S. History
