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Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Boston-born Francis Parkman (1823-1893), whose most famous books are "The Oregon Trail" and "France and England in North America," was a renowned American historian and leading horticulturalist. He was briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University's Bussey Institution (his successor at Harvard was Charles Sprague Sargent, creator and head of the Arnold Arboretum for more than 50 years) and the President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. In the 1850s, he purchased land bordering Jamaica Pond for his summer home. Today, the Francis Parkman Memorial sits near the former site of the house, while Francis Parkman Drive runs through the former location of his rose garden.
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- PublisherHart Pub Co
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0805512039
- ISBN 13 9780805512038
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages309
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The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life by Parkman, Francis; Pendrey, Peter
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Tanned due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Hardcover book. Published by New American library not clear what year. Very collectible. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> More than a century ago, a young Easterner namedFrancis Parkman set out to explore life in the uncivilizedWest. With his friend and companion Quincy Adams Shaw,he traveled up the Oregon Trail to the camps of thePawnee and the Sioux. This book is the fascinating journalof that hazardous experience. It is an authentic record oflife on the trail, an eyewitness account of the Mormonsand outlaws, trappers and Indians, pioneers and adven-turers who tried to conquer the frontier back in the dayswhen America was young. Historian Henry Steele Com-mager wrote: ?The Oregon Trail appeared in 1849, andwith its publication Parkman was launched upon hiscareer as a storyteller without peer in American letters. It is the picturesqueness, the racy vigor, the poeticeloquence, the youthful excitement, that give The OregonTrail its enduring appeal, recreating for us, as perhapsdoes no other book in our literature, Seller Inventory # Batch-FM159-G-3916
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