The Oregon Trailby Francis Parkman | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Extreme Classics" |
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| Category: |
"Travel" |
| Pages: | 286 |
| Year of Publication: | 1849 |
| Date Read: | 11/12/1995 |
| Notes: | In 1846, a young Easterner named Francis Parkman set out to explore life in the uncivilized West. With his friend and companion, Quincy Adams Shaw, he traveled up the Oregon Trail to the camps of the Pawnee and the Sioux. This book is an authentic record of life on the trail, an eyewitness account of the Mormons and outlaws, trappers and Indians, pioneers and adventurers who tried to conquer the frontier. COMMENTS — Parkman was an accomplished historian. His works include History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and an eight-volume history of France and England in North America. |
| My Rating: | 8 |