The complete online text of The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman.

Francis Parkman (1823-1893), American historian, brilliantly narrated the Anglo-French conflict for control of North America in a great multivolume work. Francis Parkman was born to wealth in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 16, 1823. As an undergraduate at Harva...

FRANCIS PARKMAN, JR. (16 September 1823-8 November 1893), was the eldest son of the Reverend Francis Parkman, pastor of the New York Church and a leader in orthodox Unitarianism in Boston. Young Parkman shared the social prominence and affluence which ch...

Francis Parkman is regarded by many students of American history and literature as the finest narrative historian America has yet produced. Among nineteenth-century histories, his seven-part, nine-volume France and England in North America retains a fres...

A LADY'S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS By Isabella Lucy Bird. University of Oklahoma Press. $29-95. "I abhor civilisation," exclaimed Isabella Bird, late in life and after her best-selling travel books had made her the talk of London. She had lectured widely...

Life in the prairie Midwest style's simplicity is, ultimately, its glory By JOY KRAUSE of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, October 15, 2000 Prairie Style. It's a term we hear frequently in design at least as often as we...