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The Oregon Trail, scanned books original editions color illustrated. Notable editions from Internet Archive: The Oregon Trail of Francis Parkman, Ginn and Company, 1910. A lengthy introduction, bibliography, and footnotes by William Ellery Leonard with assistance by Frederick Jackson Turner. The Oregon Trail; Sketches of Prairie and Rocky ...
An updated version, Oregon Trail Deluxe, was released for DOS and Macintosh in 1992, as well as Windows in 1993 (under the title of simply The Oregon Trail version 1.2) [10] followed by Oregon Trail II in 1995, [3] The Oregon Trail 3rd Edition in 1997, [11] and 4th [12] and 5th editions. [13]
The first three books of the six in chronological story sequence (but not in the sequence of publishing) — The Big Sky, The Way West, and Fair Land, Fair Land — are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in 1830 with Boone Caudill leaving Kentucky to become a mountain man and ending with the death of Caudill and later the death of Dick ...
Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature.
Writer-director Kelly Reichardt developed the film with screenwriter Jonathan Raymond, with whom she had collaborated on her previous feature, Wendy and Lucy (2008). Through historical research, Raymond had become acquainted with the story of fur trapper Stephen Meek, who led a group of travelers on an ill-fated journal along the Oregon Trail in 1845.
The film was shot in May 1959. [5] It was financed by Robert L. Lippert who made B films for Fox; The Oregon Trail was more expensive than most of his films, being budgeted at around $300,000. Lippert said the film "won't lose" but could "have used another $100,000." [1] Gene Fowler had made a number of Westerns for Lippert.
NORTHFIELD, Minn. — "The Oregon Trail," one of the most successful computer games of all time and a staple for children of the '80s and '90s, is currently being developed into a movie project.
The Big Sky is a 1947 Western novel by A. B. Guthrie Jr. It is the first of six novels in Guthrie's sequence dealing with the Oregon Trail and the development of Montana from 1830, the time of the mountain men, to "the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present."