[Note: In the original edition the illustrations not only are not placed with reference to the text, but some of them do not even illustrate the text. The inscriptions printed below several of the plates, referring to certain of the Letters, are also misleading. We have, therefore, rearranged the order of the plates, placing them as nearly as possible in juxtaposition to the appropriate textual matter.—Ed.]
| “The Lodge Pole (Indian name), Great Chief of the Flat-heads. Victor (in Baptism).” From De Smet’s Oregon Missions | Frontispiece |
| Facsimile of illuminated title-page, De Smet’s Oregon Missions | 105 |
| Facsimile of regular title-page, De Smet’s Oregon Missions | 107 |
| “Oregon Territory, 1846”—folding map | 114 |
| “Interior of St. Mary’s Church, Flat-head Mission: Communion at Easter” | 175 |
| “Mission of St. Ignatius at Kalispel Bay, among the Pends d’Oreilles” | 187 |
| “The Hunters at the Buffalo Feast” | 227 |
| “View of the new Mission Establishment in 1846, among the Pointed-Hearts” | 315 |
| “St. Mary’s, among the Flat-heads” | 323 |
| “Insula, or Red Feather (Michel), Great Chief and Brave among the Flat-heads” | 333 |
| “Great Buffalo Hunt,—View of the Muscle-Shell Mountains” | 337 |
| “Announcement of the Discovery of Buffalos” | 347 |
| “The Chief reports to his Camp that Buffalos are in sight” | 351 |
| “The Chief at the head of his Hunters” | 355 |
| “Buffalos discovered” | 387 |
| “A Prayer for success in hunting” | 401 |