"The center of life was the mission church.... Plain as it was, the hovels which were set against it gave it an air of grandeur.... Each cabin faced the church. Each door—there were no windows—gave a full view of God's tall house and the cropped poplar trees around it. The newcomers saw only the confusion." (35)

McNickle, D. The Surrounded. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (1936)

Photos: 486.072.0048 (top) and 486.IX.072.0048 (bottom), Morton J. Elrod Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.