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Boulder Marks Site of De Smet Mission
This Iowa boulder, bearing a bronze tablet, marks the spot near Broadway and Union street where Father De Smet established his first mission in the upper Missouri river valley.
Fr. De Smet Spiritual Columbus in Territory During City's Infancy
Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, Jesuit priest, who established the upper Missouri river valley's first church in a blockhouse on the present site of Council Bluffs.