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Parkman, Francis - 1823–93, American historian, b. Boston. In 1846, Parkman started a journey along the Oregon Trail to improve his health and study the Native Americans. On his return to Boston he collapsed physically and moved to Brattleboro, Vt. There Parkman dictated to his cousin The Oregon Trail, published in book form as The California and Oregon Trail (1849); the shorter title was resumed in later editions. Despite ill health, he labored on his History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851) and wrote an unsuccessful novel, Vassall Morton (1856). Following a trip to Paris in 1858 to seek medical aid, he was for several years unable to continue his historical researches. He took up the study of horticulture and became an expert in the field. In 1866, The Book of Roses was published, and from 1871 to 1872 he was professor of horticulture at Harvard. He eventually resumed his studies of the history of Canada and the early Northwest, publishing Pioneers of France in the New World (1865), The Discovery of the Great West (1869; 11th and later editions pub. as La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West), The Old Régime in Canada (1874), Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877), Montcalm and Wolfe (1884), and A Half-Century of Conflict (1892). Parkman served for a time as overseer of Harvard and later as a fellow of the Harvard Corp. (1875–88). He was a founder of the Archaeological Institute of America (1879) and was president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1875–78). Parkman's superior literary gifts, combined with his careful historical research, gained him wide contemporary prominence. His work showed both anti-Catholic and antidemocratic prejudices, but it usually managed to combine accuracy and vigor of expression. There are several editions of Parkman's complete works. His journals were edited by Mason Wade (1947) and his letters by Wilbur R. Jacobs (1960).

See biographies and studies by C. H. Farnham (1901, repr. 1969), H. O. Sedgwick (1904), M. Wade (1942), O. A. Pease (1953, repr. 1968), and R. L. Gale (1974).

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Francis Parkman » Read Now
by Robert L. Gale. 210 pgs.

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Francis Parkman: Representative Selections » Read Now
by Francis Parkman. 502 pgs.

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...drawing by Kerr Eby, after a photograph FRANCIS PARKMAN AET. CA. 35 Francis Parkman REPRESENTATIVE SELECTIONS, WITH INTRODUCTION...PREFACE It is no longer necessary to...
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Pioneers of France in the New World » Read Now
by Francis Parkman. 482 pgs.

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In the sixteenth century, Spain claimed the fabled New World, and a rash of explorers sailed there seeking riches and, most famously, a fountain of youth. Although France made inroads into Florida, ultimately the French, like the Spanish, failed to establish dominion over North America. Francis...
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In the sixteenth century, Spain claimed the fabled New World, and a rash of explorers sailed there seeking riches and, most famously, a fountain of youth. Although France made inroads into Florida, ultimately the French, like the Spanish, failed to establish dominion over North America. Francis Parkman tells why. The first part of Pioneers of France in the New World deals with the attempts of the Spanish and the French Huguenots to occupy Florida; the second, with the expeditions of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain and French colonial endeavors in Canada and Acadia.
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The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life » Read Now
by Francis Parkman, Frederic Remington. 764 pgs.

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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century » Read Now
by Francis Parkman. 590 pgs.

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Distinguised by Francis Parkman's pictorial style, THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA opens with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632. This study clearly portrays intertribal rivalries and tensions between French and English traders. However, the dramatic pulse of Parkman's narrative...
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Distinguised by Francis Parkman's pictorial style, THE JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA opens with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632. This study clearly portrays intertribal rivalries and tensions between French and English traders. However, the dramatic pulse of Parkman's narrative centers on attempts of the Jesuits to befriend, convert, and mediate between the Indian tribes--resulting in great hardship and sometimes martyrdom for the Jesuits.
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada » Read Now
by Francis Parkman. 370 pgs.

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The Conspiracy of Pontiac is an account of the Indian wars that occurred on the Appalachian frontier, extending from western Virginia to what is now Wisconsin and Michigan, in 1763-65.
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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 » Read Now
by Francis Parkman. 384 pgs.

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Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the struggle of France and England for domination in America. The Conspiracy of Pontiac is an account of the Indian wars that occurred on the Appalachian...
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Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the struggle of France and England for domination in America. The Conspiracy of Pontiac is an account of the Indian wars that occurred on the Appalachian frontier, extending from western Virginia to what is now Wisconsin and Michigan, in 1763-65.Parkman portrays the inflammatory situation that led up to and followed the French and Indian War. With France's loss of its North American colonies in 1763, the English took possession of French posts, English traders swarmed into Indian areas, and Anglo-American settlers pushed westward into what is now western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The consequence was widespread conflict-usually known as Pontiac's War, after the Ottawa leader.Volume 1 begins with a discussion of Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River, with emphasis on the Iroquois and Algonquin families. Parkman expands to include the French and British in the New World and their inevitable collision. Chief Pontiac enters the picture after the surrender of Canada by the French at Montreal in 1760. Because the French had befriended the Indians, the latter soon felt discontent with the victorious English. Revolt was in the air, and Parkman describes Pontiac's "conspiracy" in directing a siege against Detroit. Volume 2 shows the British forts and settlements in America under attack in 1763 by Pontiac's coalition of tribes. Pontiac made peace with the English in 1765, and four years later came to a violent end.The Conspiracy of Pontiac, under the Bison Book imprint, carries an introduction by Michael N. McConnell, an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples, 1724-1774 (Nebraska 1992).
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The Golden Age of American History ("Francis Parkman: (1823-1893)" begins on p. 107) » Read Now
by Frank Freidel. 538 pgs.

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...Massachusetts 99 FRANCIS PARKMAN 107 France...William Hickling Prescott, Francis Parkman, and Henry Adams, whose great...their attitudes and assumptions. Francis Parkman...
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Later Years of the Saturday Club, 1870-1920 (1927) ("Francis Parkman: 1823-1893" begins on p. 23) » Read Now
by M. A. De Wolfe Howe. 432 pgs.

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...1873 FRANCIS PARKMAN , By BLISS PERRY 23...PERKINS 18 FRANCIS PARKMAN 24 ALEXANDER...the kind which endures. 1873 FRANCIS PARKMAN 1823-1893 IN the Life...
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Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 (Chap. 1 "Iroquois-French History and Historians") » Read Now
by Jose Antonio Brandao. 382 pgs.

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...wars can be traced back to Francis Parkman, the American historian of New...Iroquois-French relations. If Francis Parkman can be credited for being among...Thus in the 125...
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American Classics Reconsidered: A Christian Appraisal ("The Literary Historians: The Brahmins Contemplate the Past" begins on p. 264) » Read Now
by Harold C. Gardiner. 310 pgs.

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...Copyright 1953 The Macmillan Company Meynell, Sir Francis The Works of Francis Thompson 1913 New Directions In the America...in terms that would have sounded familiar to...
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A Life of Francis Parkman (1901) » Read Now
by Charles Haight Farnham. 402 pgs.

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...CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. A LIFE OF FRANCIS PARKMAN BY CHARLES HAIGHT FARNHAM...is the man of success." -- FRANCIS PARKMAN. BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1901 A LIFE OF...
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Francis Parkman » Read Now
by Henry Dwight Sedgwick. 346 pgs.

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