The Oregon Trail: (1847) by: Francis Parkman. ( American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail ) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781541013858)

American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847-49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849. The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux.

Author: Francis Parkman
ISBN-10: 1541013859
ISBN-13: 9781541013858
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2016
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.39d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.5
Point Value: 22
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7118 / Oregon Trail