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Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Oregon trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628739185
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The California and Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic account of one man’s journey into the wild American frontier. In the spring of 1846, Francis Parkman, a Harvard-educated Boston-born aristocrat, headed west to experience the untamed regions of America, to acquaint himself with the wild mountain men in the Rockies, and to visit the surviving Indian tribes before all were absorbed by the relentless advance of Western civilization. Only twenty-two years old, Parkman had been preparing for this expedition his entire life, making scientific collections in the woods as a child and learning to ride a horse and shoot a gun better than nearly anyone else in New England. The California and Oregon Trail is Parkman’s thrilling account of a summer spent journeying from St. Louis through the Great Plains and Black Hills to the Rockies. Traveling with his guide, Henry Chatillon, Parkman comes to revere the French trappers and voyageurs who had originally opened the country while mastering an essential art of frontier survival—hunting buffalo. Though plagued by a mysterious illness since childhood that left him weak and blind for long periods of time, Parkman was the picture of perseverance, eagerly covering vast stretches of the Great Plains with a roving band of Sioux for days on end. He returned home exhausted—almost entirely blind—and was forced to dictate the entire account, lending the book its breezy, conversational style. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Graves and Sites on the Oregon and California Trails written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular guide describes the markers installed by the Oregon-California Trails Association's Graves and Sites Committee, providing a comprehensive compilation and description of the trail's fading remnants. For each sign, the book contains directions, the exact text, general background, and access ownership, arranged in sequence from east to west.
Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The California and Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book California and the Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis 1823-1893 Parkman
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360667263
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (672 download)
Download or read book CALIFORNIA & OREGON TRAIL BEIN written by Francis 1823-1893 Parkman and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The California and Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Gould
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Oregon & California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862 written by Jane Gould and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lansford Warren Hastings
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557092451
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
Author : Rinker Buck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451659164
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules—which hasn't been done in a century—that also tells the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country. Spanning 2,000 miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America. In the fifteen years before the Civil War, when 400,000 pioneers used it to emigrate West—historians still regard this as the largest land migration of all time—the trail united the coasts, doubled the size of the country, and laid the groundwork for the railroads. The trail years also solidified the American character: our plucky determination in the face of adversity, our impetuous cycle of financial bubbles and busts, the fractious clash of ethnic populations competing for the same jobs and space. Today, amazingly, the trail is all but forgotten. Rinker Buck is no stranger to grand adventures. The New Yorker described his first travel narrative,Flight of Passage, as “a funny, cocky gem of a book,” and with The Oregon Trailhe seeks to bring the most important road in American history back to life. At once a majestic American journey, a significant work of history, and a personal saga reminiscent of bestsellers by Bill Bryson and Cheryl Strayed, the book tells the story of Buck's 2,000-mile expedition across the plains with tremendous humor and heart. He was accompanied by three cantankerous mules, his boisterous brother, Nick, and an “incurably filthy” Jack Russell terrier named Olive Oyl. Along the way, Buck dodges thunderstorms in Nebraska, chases his runaway mules across miles of Wyoming plains, scouts more than five hundred miles of nearly vanished trail on foot, crosses the Rockies, makes desperate fifty-mile forced marches for water, and repairs so many broken wheels and axels that he nearly reinvents the art of wagon travel itself. Apart from charting his own geographical and emotional adventure, Buck introduces readers to the evangelists, shysters, natives, trailblazers, and everyday dreamers who were among the first of the pioneers to make the journey west. With a rare narrative power, a refreshing candor about his own weakness and mistakes, and an extremely attractive obsession for history and travel,The Oregon Trail draws readers into the journey of a lifetime.
Author : Weldon Willis Rau
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 1636820646
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 written by Weldon Willis Rau and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California, the 1852 overland migration was the largest on record in a year taking a terrible toll in lives mainly due to deadly cholera. Included here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman, released for the first time in book-length form. In its immediacy, Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 opens a window to the travails of the overland journeyers--their stark camps, treacherous river fordings, and dishonest countrymen; the shimmering plains and mountain vastnesses; trepidation at crossing ancient Indian lands; and the dark angel of death hovering over the wagon columns. But also found here are acts of valor, compassion, and kindness, and the hope for a new life in a new land at the end of the trail.
Author : David Dary
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195224009
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by David Dary and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, the author presents a major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present.
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041432007
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (414 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life written by Francis Parkman and published by Litres. This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Parkman
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ISBN 13 : 9781422716939
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The California and Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High quality reprint of The California and Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman.
Author : William E. Hill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The California Trail Yesterday & Today written by William E. Hill and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life; Or, The California and Oregon Trail ... written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bonnie Henderson
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680513281
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Hiking the Oregon Coast Trail written by Bonnie Henderson and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First and only comprehensive guide to the entire Oregon Coast Trail Experienced, passionate author is the authority on the OCT Perennial interest in long-distance trails From vast beaches and lush forests to windswept bluffs and dramatic sea stacks, the stunning wild coast of Oregon is emerging as the next great long-distance hiking experience. The OCT includes 200-plus miles of publicly accessible beaches, as well as established trails through city, county, and state parks and national forest lands. Breaking the trail into five major sections, each with an elevation profile, Hiking the Oregon Coast Trail provides detailed descriptions of 34 route legs with mileage, maps, resupply options, itineraries, hazards, camping or lodging options, and more. Introductory chapters advise on when to start, what to bring, and what to expect, while sidebars throughout share trail history, flora and fauna, and worthy side trips. The OCT is a truly singular experience with unique challenges such as finding campsites in some areas and navigating coastal tides, weather, and river mouth crossings. This guide synthesizes everything hikers need to know to plan and enjoy a successful adventure.
