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Francis Parkman

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1) The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life

Author

Parkman, Francis

Language

English

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...

2) A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume I

Author

Parkman, Francis

Publisher

Duke Classics

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in nineteenth-century historical writing.

3) The Oregon Trail

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

Oxford World's Classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description

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Originally serialized in Knickerbocker's Magazine between 1847 and 1849, The Oregon Trail is a fascinating chronicle of Francis Parkman's travels on the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1846 through the western states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Living and hunting with a tribe of Native Americans for a period of time, Francis Parkman captures the spirit of the old west in this gripping 19th century narrative. Fans of the old west...