The Oregon Trail
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- 1849
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Chapter I. The Frontier
16:55 -
Chapter II. Breaking the Ice
22:21 -
Chapter III. Fort Leavenworth
7:01 -
Chapter IV. “Jumping Off”
22:46 -
Chapter V. The “Big Blue”
36:48 -
Chapter VI. The Platte and the Desert
28:41 -
Chapter VII. The Buffalo
34:10 -
Chapter VIII. Taking French Leave
33:42 -
Chapter IX. Scenes at Fort Laramie
31:39 -
Chapter X. The War Parties
48:37 -
Chapter XI. Scenes at the Camp
43:21 -
Chapter XII. Ill-Luck
15:15 -
Chapter XIII. Hunting Indians
51:16 -
Chapter XIV. The Ogillallah Village
42:29 -
Chapter XV. The Hunting Camp
48:33 -
Chapter XVI. The Trappers
20:27 -
Chapter XVII. The Black Hills
8:59 -
Chapter XVIII. A Mountain Hunt
25:50 -
Chapter XIX. Passage of the Mountains
35:21 -
Chapter XX. The Lonely Journey
43:31 -
Chapter XXI. The Pueblo and Bent's Fort
15:10 -
Chapter XXII. Tete Rouge, the Volunteer
9:17 -
Chapter XXIII. Indian Alarms
23:25 -
Chapter XXIV. The Chase
19:44 -
Chapter XXV. The Buffalo Camp
32:47 -
Chapter XXVI. Down the Arkansas
37:37 -
Chapter XXVII. The Settlements
22:15
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About this book
Francis Parkman was twenty three, just out of Harvard and already in poor health, when he rode west in the summer of 1846 to see the country before it changed. What came back is less a travel account than a young man's record of what he found: emigrant trains grinding toward Oregon, buffalo hunts on the open plain, and three weeks living with an Oglala Sioux band. The writing is quick and physical, full of weather, horses, dust, and hunger, and it made Parkman's name at an age when most historians are still copying notes. It is also blunt about its author's prejudices, and his contempt for the people who sheltered him is hard going, which is part of why the book still gets argued over.
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- Author
- Francis Parkman
- First published
- 1849
- Reading time
- About 9 hours
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
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- R. S. Steinberg