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Title: Brother VanAuthor: Stella Wyatt BrummittRelease date: December 16, 2017 [eBook #56184]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Richard Hulse and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book wasproduced from images made available by the HathiTrustDigital Library.)
Title: Brother Van
Author: Stella Wyatt Brummitt
Author: Stella Wyatt Brummitt
Release date: December 16, 2017 [eBook #56184]Most recently updated: October 23, 2024
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Richard Hulse and the Online DistributedProofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book wasproduced from images made available by the HathiTrustDigital Library.)
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WILLIAM WESLEY VAN ORSDELBut the Northwest knows him only as Brother Van
WILLIAM WESLEY VAN ORSDELBut the Northwest knows him only as Brother Van
Transcriber’s NotesPunctuation has been standardized.Most abbreviations have been expanded in tool-tips for screen-readers and may be seen by hovering the mouse over the abbreviation.This book has drop-caps at the start of each chapter. These drop-caps may adversely affect the pronunciation of the word with screen-readers.This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcriber’s Note.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation has been standardized.Most abbreviations have been expanded in tool-tips for screen-readers and may be seen by hovering the mouse over the abbreviation.This book has drop-caps at the start of each chapter. These drop-caps may adversely affect the pronunciation of the word with screen-readers.This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcriber’s Note.
Punctuation has been standardized.
Most abbreviations have been expanded in tool-tips for screen-readers and may be seen by hovering the mouse over the abbreviation.
This book has drop-caps at the start of each chapter. These drop-caps may adversely affect the pronunciation of the word with screen-readers.
This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated with a Transcriber’s Note.
BROTHER VANBySTELLA W. BRUMMITT(‡ Colophon)NEW YORKMISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENTOF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADACopyright, 1919, byMISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENTOF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADATo the Best Known andBest Loved Man in MontanaBROTHER VAN
BROTHER VAN
By
STELLA W. BRUMMITT
(‡ Colophon)
NEW YORKMISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENTOF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
Copyright, 1919, by
MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENTOF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
To the Best Known andBest Loved Man in Montana
BROTHER VAN
CONTENTSForewordIA Boy at GettysburgIIExplorers of a Continental PurchaseIIIWestwardIVA Sky Pilot’s Race Up the MissouriVBrother VanVIA Brother to the BlackfootVIIThe Gospel TeamVIIIScouting for Uncle SamIXNew TrailsXGreat Heart with the IndiansXIBrother Van and New MontanaXIISeventy Years Young
ILLUSTRATIONS1William Wesley Van Orsdel, known as “Brother Van.”2The Battle of Gettysburg.3A statue in honor of Sacajawea in Portland, Oregon.4Sitting Bull was dressed in full war regalia.5Historic Fort Benton, where Brother Van ate jerked buffalo meat.6Brother Van visiting a Blackfeet medicine lodge.7The ceremony of adoption into the Blackfeet tribe.8Indians were terrifying settlers everywhere.9Brother Van’s dispatch to the HelenaHerald.10Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Percés at Big Hole.11Dr.Thomas C. Iliff and Brother Van, who had many adventures together.12Brother Van was “hail fellow well met” with the people.13Brother Van shot the herd leader in the head.14The Van Orsdel Home for Nurses at Helena.15Great Heart with a Blackfoot brother.16A copper mine at Butte.