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The Oregon Trail
The Floating Press 1847; US$ 3.99Take a trip back in time on the Oregon Trail. This series of non-fiction essays from Francis Parkman details life on the nineteenth-century American frontier, detailing the summer a young Parkman traveled through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Along the way, the author spent time hunting and fishing, as well as participating in a buffalo hunt... more...
A Half Century of Conflict
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 4.99Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1, Parkman dissects and explains the tumult that surrounded the birth of the United States. This book is regarded as one of the highest literary achievements in... more...
Montcalm and Wolfe
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 16.95The result of over forty years of passionate research, Montcalm and Wolfe is the epic story of Europe's struggle for dominance of the New World. Centuries of rivalry and greed between the great imperial powers culminated in five brutal years of war; resulted in the death of both generals, Louis de Montcalm and James Wolfe; and ultimately sowed the... more...
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 14.95René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. He set out from France with four... more...
The Oregon Trail
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman. It was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (184749) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month... more...
Pioneers of France in the New World
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99The work discusses international politics as it unfolded in history. The earliest exploration expeditions of North America have been elucidated. It chronicles the early triumphs and the latter failure to colonize the area by the French. With minute historical details, this is a brilliant and engrossing work. more...
The Oregon Trail
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 8.99The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. In the course of his travels,... more...
The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle
Random House Publishing Group 2012; US$ 71.80Revisit a world of conquest, exploration, and imperial adventure with this Modern Library eBook bundle that includes Edward Gibbon?s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Francis Parkman?s Montcalm and Wolfe , William H. Prescott?s History of the Conquest of Mexico , and Theodore Roosevelt?s The Naval War of 1812 . THE DECLINE AND FALL... more...
The Oregon Trail
Digireads.com Publishing 2005; US$ 5.99"The Oregon Trail" by Francis Parkman is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download "The Oregon Trail" and enjoy another quality Digireads.com publication. more...
Montcalm and Wolfe
Digireads.com Publishing 2012; US$ 6.49"Montcalm and Wolfe" is Francis Parkman's detailed account of the French and Indian War framed through portraits of its two opposing generals. The French and Indian War, which was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War between the French and the British, pitted the commander of the French troops, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon,... more...
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