Francis Parkman : The Oregon Trail / The Conspiracy of Pontiac

Francis Parkman : The Oregon Trail / The Conspiracy of Pontiac (The Library of America)
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â€œFrom boyhood,â€ wrote Francis Parkman, â€œI had a taste for the woods and the Indians.â€ This Library of America volume, containingÂ The Oregon TrailÂ andÂ The Conspiracy of Pontiac, brilliantly demonstrates this lifelong fascination.Â His first book,Â The Oregon Trail, is a vivid account of his frontier adventures and his encounters with Plains Indians in their final era of nomadic life.Â The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Parkmanâ€™s first historical work, portrays the fierce conflict that erupted along the Great Lakes in the aftermath of the Seven Yearsâ€™ War and chronicles the defeats in which the eastern Native American tribes â€œreceived their final doom.â€

The Oregon TrailÂ (1849) opens on a Missouri River steamboat crowded with traders, gamblers, speculators, Oregon emigrants, â€œmountain men,â€ and Kansas Indians. In his search for Natives untouched by white culture, Parkman meets the Whirlwind, a Sioux chieftain, and follows him through the Black Hills. His descriptions of nativesâ€™ buffalo hunts, feasts and games, feuds, and gift-giving derive their intensity from his awareness that he was recording a vanishing way of life. Praised by Herman Melville for its â€œtrue wild-game flavor,â€Â The Oregon TrailÂ is a classic tale of adventure that celebrates the rich variety of life Parkman found on the frontier and the immensity and grandeur of Americaâ€™s western landscapes.

InÂ The Conspiracy of PontiacÂ (1851), Parkman chronicles the consequences of the French defeat in Canada for the eastern Native American tribes. At the head of the Native American resistance to the Anglo-American advance in the 1760s was the daring Ottawa leader Pontiac, whose attacks on the frontier forts and settlements put in doubt the continuation of western expansion. A powerful narrative of battles and skirmishes, treaties and betrayals, written with eloquence and fervor and filled with episodes of heroism and endurance,Â The Conspiracy of PontiacÂ captures the spirit of a tragic and tumultuous age.

LIBRARY OF AMERICAÂ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nationâ€™s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americaâ€™s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Black
ReleaseDate 1991-05-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780940450547

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	1991-05-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780940450547

Francis Parkman : The Oregon Trail / The Conspiracy of Pontiac (The Library of America)

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