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...

Francis Parkman was the first scholar to take the colonial frontier seriously as a subject, and his multivolume history, France and England in North America (1865-1892), shaped the conventions for writing colonial, frontier, and Native American history...

Francis Parkman's importance as a travel writer has long rested on a single classic book, The Oregon Trail (1872), which was first published as The California and Oregon Trail (1849). It appeared at virtually the best possible time and under the best...

Francis Parkman is best remembered for The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (1849), a lively account of his adventures with Indians, pioneers, and buffalo in the Wild West of the 1840s. But he was no rugged...

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...

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...