Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy / edited by Roberta Stringham Brown and Patricia O'Connell Killen ; translated by Roberta Stringham Brown.

"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 Bl...

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