Black Robes Enter Coyote's World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains

Winner of the 2025 Big Sky Award from High Plains International
Gold Medal Winner of the 2025 Will Rogers Medallion
Finalist for the 2025 High Plains International Book Award in Nonfiction

Black Robes Enter Coyote's World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana's Native peoples--a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformative decades of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Sally Thompson tells the story of how Jesuit values playe...