The Works of Francis Parkman

by Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman, Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian and author, best known of The Oregon Trail, and France and England in North America. The Works of Francis Parkman (with an active table of contents) contains 11 books,
•The Oregon Trail
•The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
•Pioneers of France in the New World
•The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
•La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
•Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
•Montcalm and Wolfe
•A Half Century of Conflict – Volume 1 & 2
•France and England in North America, Part 3
•Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour
•Vassall Morton

3973 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 12, 2009

About the author

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.