Robert C. Carriker

Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845–1910 (review)

The present book began life as a “relatively uncomplicated account of western Irish,” but soon transformed itself into a “cluttered storyline of a people beyond a cultural as well as a geographical pale” (p. 460). To fully develop his thoughts, writes the author, the University of Oklahoma Press allowed him a larger than usual word limit. The result is a large, dynamic book about a people, a religion, a region, and a culture. Happily, this hefty volume is exceptionally well written.

A Pretty Village: Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1880–1889, and: Zealous in All Virtues: Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1890–1894 (review)

Mission, Montana, 1880–1889. Edited by Robert J. Bigart; Latin translation by James M. Scott; French translation by Elizabeth A. Hubble. (Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College Press; distrib. the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. 2007. Pp. xii, 340.

The American West: A New Interpretive History

19.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1-934-59400-1.) Zealous in All Virtues: Documents of Worship and Culture Change, St. Ignatius Mission, Montana, 1890–1894. Edited by Robert J. Bigart; Latin translation by James M. Scott. (Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College Press; distrib. the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. 2007. Pp. xii, 324.

People of The Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission

19.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1-934-59401-8.)