The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

Francis Parkman Jr. (1823 – 1893) was the patriarch of the Flores-Parkman family, and 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 author of several books on the topic...