Francis Parkman

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1) The Oregon Trail

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

Oxford World's Classics
Signet classic
Penguin classics

Description

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A journal of the "tour" of an Eastern journalist through the American West in 1846.

2) The Oregon trail : sketches of prairie and rocky mountain life

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

The Beacon Hill bookshelf

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Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.

3) The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life

Author

Parkman, Francis

Pub. Date

[1901?]

4) The Oregon Trail ; The conspiracy of Pontiac

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

Library of America volume 053

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Contains "The Oregon Trail," a collection of essays that first appeared in the "Knickerbocker Magazine," discussing Parkman's trip to Oregon in 1846, and "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," relating Ottawa leader Pontiac's attacks on British forts and settlements in the 1760s.

5) France and England in North America: Vol. 1

Author

Parkman, Francis

Pub. Date

[1983]

6) France and England in North America

Author

Parkman, Francis

Pub. Date

c1983

7) The California and Oregon Trail

Author

Parkman, Francis

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"The California and Oregon Trail is Parkman's thrilling account of a summer spent journeying from St. Louis through the Great Plains and Black Hills to the Rockies. Traveling with his guide, Henry Chatillon, Parkman comes to revere the French trappers and voyageurs who had originally opened the country while mastering an essential art of frontier survival--hunting buffalo. Though plagued by a mysterious illness since childhood that left him weak and...