The Oregon Trail ; The conspiracy of Pontiac
"From boyhood," wrote Francis Parkman, "I had a taste for the woods and the Indians." This Library of America volume, containing The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, brilliantly demonstrates this lifelong fascination. Parkman traveled through the West in 1846 after graduating from Harvard. His first book, The Oregon Trail, is a vivid account of his frontier adventures and his encounters with Plains Indians in their final era of nomadic life. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Parkman's first historical work, portrays the fierce conflict that erupted along the Great Lakes in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War and chronicles the defeats in which the eastern Native American tribes "received their final doom."
History
951 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9780940450547, 0940450542
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The Oregon Trail
The Conspiracy of Pontiac