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The Oregon Trail sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life
The Oregon Trail sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life Author:Francis Parkman Francis Parkman was a 19th century American historian. He is best known for his works The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and the 7 volume France and England in North America. The Oregon Trail sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life is an account of the author's experiences during the early days of the West. He ... more »writes of big game hunts, frontier life, encounters with Indians, and camp life on the trail. The story begins in 1846 in St Louis where the boats and wagon trains are stocking up before their long and dangerous journey. "The passengers on board the Radnor corresponded with her freight. In her cabin were Santa Fe traders, gamblers, speculators, and adventurers of various descriptions, and her steerage was crowded with Oregon emigrants, "mountain men," negroes, and a party of Kansas Indians, who had been on a visit to St. Louis."« less