{"product_id":"the-oregon-trail-an-illustrated-edition-of-francis-parkmans-western-adventure","title":"The Oregon Trail: An Illustrated Edition of Francis Parkman's Western Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnjoy this fully and beautifully illustrated edition of this classic travel memoir written by Francis Parkman  the nineteenth centurys most famous historian. The Oregon Trail: The Complete Illustrated Edition  by Francis Parkman  is the best known work by the 19th centurys most famous historian. It wasnt intended to be a book from the onset  and its pages comprise twenty-one installments that originally ran in The Knickerbocker  a New York City-based literary magazine  in 1849. The book was assembled two years after the first dispatch in the magazine. Brought back into the public eye for the first time in this handsome  fully illustrated edition  The Oregon Trail recreates the untamed West through the eyes of adventure-thirsty Parkman  who was a revered historian  a horticulturalist  and author. Francis Parkman  a well-to-do man from Boston  traveled west in the late 1840s to Nebraska  Wyoming  Colorado  and Kansas. The Oregon Trail covers his two months on the first third of the Oregon Trail and offers beautifully written profiles the American West in the days before the expansion of Eastern settlers into the Western United States. Passages about majestic mountains  wild buffalo herds  and roaring rivers make Parkmans work a classic travel and nature narrative. In May 1846  Parkman arrived in Westport  Missouri  intent on visiting a Native American village along the newly established roads to the West. He had been traveling with his cousin Quincy Adams Shaw  eager to inspect what was left of the continents native population. Parkman completes his sketches of the Oregon Trail with the quiet  throughtful words  \"On the next morning we left town  and after a fortnight of railroads and steamboat we saw once more the familiar features of home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966246416437,"sku":"ByrdShop_0760350248","price":316.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780760350249.jpg?v=1770558459","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-oregon-trail-an-illustrated-edition-of-francis-parkmans-western-adventure","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}