April 12, 2024
1906 10 Years in Wyoming & Idaho, Talbot, My People of the Plains
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� My People of the Plains� By the Right Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, D.D., S.T.D., Bishop of Central Pennsylvania.New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1906.� First edition, November, 1906. Flake 8569 Green cloth hardcover, 5 ¾ x 9, top page ends gilt, 265 clean pages, tight, old library markings but with the spine label neatly removed.� Lacks the front free end papers - begins with the title page; frontispiece bound in behind the title page. � � There is a lengthy article on Talbot at Wikipedia, to which I refer you.� Of his western experiences, it says that in the ten years in the West, he established 38 churches and built St. Matthew's Cathedral in Laramie, Wyoming.� This was still the Old West and the story is told of his encounter with bandits while riding in a stage coach, “Surely you wouldn’t rob a poor bishop?” said Talbot.� “Did you say you were a bishop?” asked the bandit.� “Yes, just a poor bishop.”� “What church?”� “The Episcopal.”� “The hell you are!� Why that’s the church I belong to!� Go along, driver.” “The experiences herein related took place during the eleven years [1887-1898] in which the author had the great privilege of ministering as bishop to the warm-hearted and generous pioneers of the Rocky Mountain region embraced in the territory now included in the states of Wyoming and Idaho.� During that time, he had
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