Francis Parkman
(1823 - 1893)
Francis Parkman, Jr. was an 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.
Bibliography
The Oregon Trail (1931)
Francis Parkman took a tour of the West before settling down to write his histories. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Oregon Trail (1943)
In the summer of 1846 the author and his companions crossed the Mississippi in search of Indians and buffalo. This edition is augmented with material from the author's notebooks and the original periodical publication.
Read online at Internet Archive.
The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)
Francis Parkman took a tour of the western United States in 1846 which included a buffalo hunt with a band of Sioux. He recorded his adventures in this, his first book, which met with critical success. He went on to write the history of the European conquest and settlement of the American forest.