Francis Parkman Audio

Francis Parkman's journal - written more than 150 years ago, in 1846 - provides an eye-witness account of one of the grandest adventures in American history.

The Oregon Trail chronicles the travels of Francis Parkman up the Oregon Trail to record his...

This is the classic account of Francis Parkman’s rugged trip over the eastern part of the Oregon Trail with his cousin, Quincy Adams Shaw, which took place in the spring and summer of 1846.

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23.

Francis Parkman (1823-1893) has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O Canada (1965), described Parkman's France and England in North America in these terms: The clarity, the momentum and the color of the first volumes of Parkman's narrative are among the most brilliant achievements of the writing of history as an art.