Record Details
Pays des Porteurs (Country of the Porteurs), (c. 1846)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Pays des Porteurs (Country of the Porteurs), (c. 1846) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu2 WSU 2 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,155 |
| Creator | DeSmet, Pierre Jean, S.J. |
| Date | ca. 1846 2000 - 2002 |
| Description | 1 ms. map: hand col., 26 x 22 cm. In 1840, Jesuit missionary Fr. Pierre Jean DeSmet, traveled to the Pacific Northwest upon request by the Flathead Indian nation. Returning the next year with supplies and a few fellow brethren, DeSmet founded St. Mary's Mission on the St. Joseph River, thirty miles north of present day Missoula, Montana. DeSmet then spent ten (nonconsecutive) years in the northwest region. In those years he baptized thousands of Indians, wrote extensively of his travels,... |
| Subject | Missions -- Washington (State) -- Maps, Manuscript; Missions -- Idaho -- Maps, Manuscript; Missions -- Montana-- Maps, Manuscript |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | Washington (State); Idaho; Montana |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | French |
| Relation | Is part of Pierre Jean De Smet Papers, 1764-1970 Cage 537. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg537.htm |
