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On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman, who had already decided that he was going to write the history of the settling of America, and Quincy Adams Shaw set forth from St. Louis up the Missouri River and onto the Oregon Trail for a "tour of curiosity and amusement to the Rocky Mountains." They travelled some 1700 miles, meeting trappers, gamblers, woodsmen, soldiers and Indians and Parkman eventually spent three weeks hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux. The following year he published "The Oregon Trail", a travelogue which remains one of the great books ever produced by an American and embarked him on a career as one of America's first great historians.
In "The Oregon Trail" keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of emigrants and Western wildlife; and vivid descriptions of Indian life and culture.
A classic of American frontier literature.
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GenreTravel, History, Children's Literature
Length13 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 4, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1. The Frontier
2Chapter 2. Breaking The Ice
3Chapter 3. Fort Leavenworth
4Chapter 4. “Jumping Off”
5Chapter 5. “The Big Blue”
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6Chapter 6. The Platte And The Desert
7Chapter 7. The Buffalo
8Chapter 8. Taking French Leave
9Chapter 9. Scenes At Fort Laramie
10Chapter 10. The War Parties
11Chapter 11. Scenes At The Camp
12Chapter 12. Ill Luck
13Chapter 13. Hunting Indians
14Chapter 14. The Ogallalla Village
15Chapter 15. The Hunting Camp
16Chapter 16. The Trappers
17Chapter 17. The Black Hills
18Chapter 18. A Mountain Hunt
19Chapter 19. Passage Of The Mountains
20Chapter 20. The Lonely Journey
21Chapter 21. The Pueblo And Bent’s Fort
22Chapter 22. Tete Rouge, The Volunteer
23Chapter 23. Indian Alarms
24Chapter 24. The Chase
25Chapter 25. The Buffalo Camp
26Chapter 26. Down The Arkansas
27Chapter 27. The Settlements
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