Across God's Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920

Contents and Illustrations

Contents Abbreviations for Religious Congregations of Women xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Nuns for the West 13 Chapter 2. Travels 43 Chapter 3. The Labor 79 Chapter 4. The Finances 117 Chapter 5. Contests for Control 153 Chapter 6. A Woman for the West: Mother Katharine Drexel 191 Chapter 7. Ethnic Intersections 231 Chapter 8. Nuns of the West 267 Conclusion. Nuns and Wests: Melding 303 Glossary 315 Notes 319 Bibliography 373 Index 395 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations English Servants of Mary in Nebraska, 1893 16 A postulant for the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Missouri 21 A Sister of the Good Shepherd posing in a garden 40 An Oregon Sister of St. Mary and a Minnesota School Sister of Notre Dame 50 Two Sisters of Loretto visiting Seven Falls in Colorado Springs, Colorado 58 Daughters of Charity loading their luggage 77 School Sisters of Notre Dame harvesting beans 85 Two Sisters of the Holy Family leaving church together 107 A Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet with Native students in Arizona 115 Mother Kilian of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia posing with a Wyoming Native American couple 133 A Dominican sister in Iowa standing amid her musical instruments with one of her students 143 Canadian Sisters of Providence with dinner baskets 147 A Daughter of Charity standing outside of St. Mary’s Hospital, Virginia City, Nevada 151 Three Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth posing on a rock formation with a laywoman 171 Holy Names Sister Fibronia with student Mollie Britt 176 Mother Scholastica Kerst and other Benedictine sisters enjoying the outdoors 181 A group of Piegan and Gros Ventre students with Montana Ursuline nuns, including Mother Amadeus Dunne 196 Native Americans and two Sisters of Providence in the company of a puppy and a kitten 202 Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament guiding their school wagon in New Mexico 218 Mother Katharine Drexel with Native American nuns, possibly the last image of Mother Katharine in the West 240 The 1905 class photograph of the Sisters of the Holy Ghost school in Laredo, Texas, showing the large number of Mexican American students 256 The Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence, a congregation of Mexican American women 263 Dominican sister assisting operating-­ room doctors during a surgical procedure 278 Sisters of St. Mary in their St. Louis infirmary kitchen 282 Denver Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth escorting a group of orphans on a donor visit 289 ...