The Oregon Trail (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Parkman
- First Published: 1849
- Type of Work: Record of travel
- Type of Plot: Travel and adventure sketches
- Time of Work: 1846
- Setting: The Oregon Trail
- Principal Characters: Francis Parkman, Quincy Shaw, Henry Chatillon, Deslauriers
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, West, U.S., Native Americans or American Indians, Pacific Northwest, Cowboys or cowgirls, Oregon Trail, Oregon, Exploration or explorers
- Locales: Oregon Trail
Critique:
This book is one of the great documents of the West. Very few travelers wrote much about the country beyond the Mississippi as early as the 1840’s, and those who did write seldom approached their subject with the objective and unbiased point of view from which Francis Parkman wrote in his account of a region he had known and enjoyed. His motive was to set down for posterity what he had observed on his trip to the Rocky Mountains. He realized only too well that the Indian, the trading post, the mountain man, and the great buffalo herds were passing figures in...
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