Fr. DeSmet's Oregon Missions and Travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1847

The JOPA secondary source materials are intended to supplement the manuscript collections, and so reflect the broad theme of Northwest/Alaskan religious history. There are approximately 2000 titles in the collection. Many are hard-to-find items, particularly the early Native languages grammars and dictionaries.

A card catalog system provides in-house access to the entire collection. A retrospective conversion project is in progress, and so access to about one-third of the titles is currently available through the on-line catalog .

General collecting areas include:

• Alaska Local Histories, Biographies and Autobiographies
• Alaska Catholic Mission Histories and Bibliographies
• Bibliographic Resources and Guides
• California Catholic Mission Histories and Bibliographies
• Catholic Biographies and Autobiographies
• DeSmet Published Correspondence and biographies
• Jesuit General Histories
• Jesuit Oregon Province Authors' Works
• Jesuit Provinces Annual Catalogs
• Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (R. Thwaites; Vols. 1-73, Index)
• Jesuit Woodstock Letters
• Jesuitica
• Lewis and Clark Journals (Thwaites; Moulton)
• Native American Grammars, Dictionaries, and Text Translations
• Native American Tribal Histories and Ethnologies
• Northwest Catholic Church and Mission Histories and Bibliographies
• Northwest Non-Catholic Church and Mission Histories
• Northwest Radical Groups (I.W.W.; Doukhobors)
• Northwest State and Regional Histories
• Periodicals and Serials (Northwest History, Northwest Catholic Diocesan and Mission History)
• Theses and Dissertations
• U.S. Catholic Histories