About this title: 'It was his own fortitude and perseverance - perseverance under the most grievous physical afflictions - that made it possible for Parkman to see as much of the West as he did, to experience at first hand the life of the explorer and the trapper and hunter, and even of the Indian. And it was his arduous preparation, his intellectual curiosity, his ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heritage Press, New York
Date Published: 1944
Description: Good. xxii, 297 p., [6] leaves of plates: ill.; 24 cm. "The entire contents of this edition are copyright, 1943, by the Limited Editions Club"--P. [iv]. LC copy includes review of book (The Heritage Club sandglass, no. 50) laid in. Source: Bequest of Edith read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good. vi, 328 p. : col. plates.; 25 cm. "...limited to one thousand copies...signed by the artist. " Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & company, inc., Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1946
Description: Thomas Hart Benton. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Crisp, colorful illustrations. Faded green cloth on hardcover and some tearing on spine. Worn, but all pages in tact. vi, 328 p. col. plates. 22 cm. Colored illustration on t. -p. read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1967 Bantam Pathfinder paperback. NOT EX LIB! Pages are clean with light wear, light tanning especially inside front/back covers, creased spine, some mild edgewear. 298 p. Bantam Pathfinder Edition. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
"Where has this book been all my life? This is the America we will never know -- should be required reading for all young adult history classes. My edition is illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. I feel like a child in wonder reading this book."
"dense, as others have said meandering and well, kind of misleading because he never gets past colorado! once he joins the indians though, the pace picks up considerably."
"The Oregon Trail has been on my want-to-read list for ages. It probably was listed on my college-bound reading list back in the 1960s. When we took a trip to Oregon last fall I decided to tackle it at last. Unfortunately, the meandering nature of the book made it difficult for me to want to finish, and in fact I skimmed the last 100 pages. In small doses the book has first-person experience of Westward Expansion to recommend it. Parkman decided to travel west from St. Louis to the Rockies in order to see the American wilderness. He describes in lively detail the landscape, the flora a fauna, and the people who lived, trapped and hunted there. If you want to know about an Indian encampment, a prairie dog town, or what it was like to hunt buffalo, this book has all of it. For me the trouble was there was too much of it, repeated in slight variation, over and over. One of the things I liked best about the edition I read was the pen and ink sketches of trappers, hunters, soldiers and Indians by Frederick Remington."
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