The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman
The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman
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The Oregon Trail

Author: Francis Parkman

Narrator: Adrian Cronauer

Unabridged: 11 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/10/2008


Synopsis

In 1846, a young Harvard graduate named Francis Parkman set out to explore life in the uncivilized West. With his friend Quincy Adams Shaw, he traveled up the Oregon Trail to the camps of the Pawnee and the Sioux. Parkman's journal is an authentic record of life on the trail, an exciting eyewitness account of the Mormons and outlaws, trappers and Native Americans, pioneers and adventurers who tried to conquer the frontier.

About Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) was one of America’s greatest historians. He was born in Boston to a leading Unitarian minister. He was a talented linguist at Harvard and read almost as many books in foreign languages as in English. He died in Massachusetts, having worked as a writer, journalist, and historian.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Graychin on March 05, 2012

In my little book reviews I’m always coming back to this idea of sympathetic imagination. Sympathetic imagination, for me, is the ability to put oneself in another person’s place, to imaginatively enter into someone else’s mind and perspective. Exercising sympathetic imagination means withholding ju......more

Goodreads review by Jean on January 19, 2023

Turned out “The Oregon Trail” by Francis Parkman was not the book I was looking for about the Oregon Trail, but it was interesting. The book was published in 1849. Parkman provided beautiful, detailed descriptions of his travels including the flora and fauna but also people and places. I find one mu......more

Goodreads review by Moonkiszt on October 04, 2022

I nearly didn't finish this. I've been obsessed with pioneers and the west and my ancestors. This book, which I've read a couple of times many, many years ago, I've read with new eyes and ears this time, and since it was published in 1849, it is absolutely not PC. Where in the past I was able to ove......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 01, 2017

"Pur-sioux-ing Exotica" In the 1970s, British university graduates could take a year off and make their way across Europe, through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, overland to India. It was "breaking away", "a testing of self", "seeing the world", "the search for the other" or maybe just drugs......more

Goodreads review by Dimitris on June 30, 2022

It was ok! Almost rated 3 stars but... The Oregon Trail or Let's Shoot Some Buffalo or Indians Suck, Whites Rule. I really love the way Parkman describes a scene. and for that and that only I'll read more of his stuff and try something else too, what made me not put 3 stars, was that he was talking ab......more