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Excerpt from On the Mission in Missouri: 1857-1868 Checking the speed of his steed, he saluted me, inquired my name, where I was from, and on what purpose journeying. I gave him my name and told him I was a Catholic priest seeking a location for a church in these parts. He said, there are no Cath olics here, what then is the use for a church? See ing he was prejudiced and displeased with my purpose, I replied, True, sir, there are no Catholics here now, but they will be here before long, and you and I may live to see the day when there will be a Cathe lic church on every hill around here. Yes, said he, when the Chariton goes up stream, good-bye, spurring his horse, he rode quickly ahead. Having crossed the Chariton swamp and gained the high lands on the west side I allowed my horse to graze along the road whilst I recited the divine office. Afterwards I rode on some miles and towards eve ning stopped for the night at a farm house on the stage road leading towards Linneus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Two Irish- American classics, edited and with new biographical and background information. Father John Joseph Hogan, pioneer priest, then first bishop of Kansas City, was a gifted writer as well. Ordained a priest in St. Louis in 1852, he established widely separated missions in north Missouri and in southeast Missouri in the years just before the Civil War. On the Mission in Missouri, first published in 1892, contains the only known firsthand account of his Irish Wilderness colony in the Missouri Ozarks. In the few years before the Civil War he led a group of Irish Potato Famine immigrants to settle southeast Missouri. After the War, the Irish settlers were gone. The mystery of who they were and what happened to the settlement remains. Today, a 16,500 acre federal wilderness tract commemorates their effort: The Irish Wilderness.Few recollections of a country childhood in Ireland are as beautifully told as his memoir, Fifty Years Ago (originally published in 1907). Growing up in County Limerick in the 1830s and '40s, he vividly recounts his adventures, education, rallies of Daniel O?Connell and the tenor of his times. Editor Crystal Payton provides extensive background information on the historical context in which he lived, biographical information and a timeline to introduce the modern reader to the lively, adventurous young priest, reluctant bishop and compelling writer.