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1) Montcalm and Wolfe: The Riveting Story of the Heroes of the French and Indian War

Author

Parkman, Francis

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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The result of over forty years of passionate research, Montcalm and Wolfe is the epic story of Europe's struggle for dominance of the New World. Centuries of rivalry and greed between the great imperial powers culminated in five brutal years of war; resulted in the death of both generals, Louis de Montcalm and James Wolfe; and ultimately sowed the seeds of the American Revolution, fought a scant seventeen years later. A brilliant work of scholarship...

2) Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

Author

Parkman, Francis

Publisher

Project Gutenberg

Language

English

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Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (1622-1698), was Governor-General of French Canada. In this 1877 installment of his monumental France and England in North America, Parkman documents the man's early life, his rise to power, his arrival in Quebec, and his struggles against the Native Americans and British colonists.

3) The Oregon trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-mountain life

Author

Parkman, Francis

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...

4) The Oregon Trail

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

Oxford World's Classics
Washington Square Press book
Penguin classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle, Reference Book

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Originally serialized in Knickerbocker's Magazine between 1847 and 1849, The Oregon Trail is a fascinating chronicle of Francis Parkman's travels on the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1846 through the western states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Living and hunting with a tribe of Native Americans for a period of time, Francis Parkman captures the spirit of the old west in this gripping 19th century narrative. Fans of the old west...