Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Catholic Beginnings in Kansas City, Missouri: An Historical Sketch
In 1916 the author of the present sketch, in the course of a casual examination of the Archdiocesan Archives of St. Louis, chanced upon the correspondence of Father Roux, the pioneer priest of Kansas City, With Bishop Rosati of St. Louis. It did not take him long to recognize in this correspondence an historical source of the first importance for the story of Catholic develop ment in the second city of, Missouri, once an Indian trading - station and the ultimate advance-post of the White man's civilization on the highway of travel to the Great Plains, but now of metropolitan proportions With 110 element lacking to fill up the perfect measure of its modernity. The letters of Father Roux, packed With interesting detail and remarkable as the earliest body of eorrespondence indorsed from the mouth of the Kansas anywhere to be found, became accordingly the centre around which this sketch is largely written; but other material, mostly from unpublished sources, has also been utilized enabling the author to carry his narrative forward from the first appearance of the Faith on the Missouri frontier to the pastorate of Father Roux and thence to the advent of Father Donnelly, under Whom the pioneer stage of Kansas City Cath olieity passed into history.
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