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    Francis Parkman

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    Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below. ↗


    — Francis Parkman

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    Parkman made expeditions through the Alps and the Apennine mountains climbed Vesuvius and even lived for a time in Rome where he befriended Passionist monks who tried unsuccessfully to convert him to Catholicism. CXVIII No. Gallery


    Selected works
    The Oregon Trail (1847)
    The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851)
    Vassall Morton (1856) a novel
    The Book of Roses (1866)
    France and England in North America (1865-1892):
    The Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
    The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867)
    La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869)
    The Old Régime in Canada (1874)
    Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877)
    Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)
    A Half Century of Conflict (1892)

    The Journals of Francis Parkman.

    (September 16 1823 – November 8 1893) 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. He was also a leading horticulturist briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and the first leader of the Arnold Arboretum and author of several books on the topic.

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