Books by Francis Parkman

The true story of author Francis Parkman's adventures in Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas in the summer of 1846.

Francis Parkman (1823-93), a well-known historian of colonial North America, is still admired for his literary style. This famous early work (1847-9), reissued here in its revised sixth edition (1878), describes Parkman's adventurous journey from St Louis to the Rocky Mountains and his interactions with the Oglala Sioux.

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. His detailed description of the journey, set against the vast majesty of the Great Plains, has emerged through the generations as a classic narrative of one man's exploration of the American Wilderness.

He who opens these pages for the first time faces a rich experience.-C. Vann Woodward.