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Francis Parkman

Born

in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

September 16, 1823

Died

November 08, 1893

Genre

History

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Francis Parkman was an American historian.

He is best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic.

Parkman was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum from 1858 until his death in 1893.

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	The Oregon Trail 3.57 avg rating — 3,738 ratings — published 1849 — 351 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montcalm and Wolfe 4.21 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1884 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Francis Parkman: France and England in North America, Volume 1 4.25 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman, Rick Bass (Introduction) 4.01 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1869 — 235 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman, Conrad E. Heidenreich (Introduction), José António Brandão (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1867 — 158 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	France and England in North America, Volume 2 4.47 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1877 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pioneers of France in the New World 4.05 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1865 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac by Francis Parkman, William Taylor (Editor) 3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1851 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oregon Trail of Francis Parkman 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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France and England in North America (11 books)
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“Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time.”
― Francis Parkman

tags: history, research

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“He professed himself a Catholic, but his Catholicity sat lightly on him;”
― Francis Parkman, Pioneers of France in the New World

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― Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail

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