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2. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

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   The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman.It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.

3. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey - Wikipedia

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   The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey is a 2015 non-fiction book written by Rinker Buck, author of Flight of Passage (Hyperion Books, 1997). The Oregon Trail is an account of Buck's 2011 journey along the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. It was published by Simon & Schuster in hardcover, audio book and eBook formats.

4. The Big Sky (novel) - Wikipedia

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   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."

5. Francis Parkman - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. List of fiction set in Oregon - Wikipedia

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   Eureka, set in Oregon, but filmed in British Columbia [6] Free Agents, set in Portland, but filmed in Los Angeles; Gravity Falls, set in the Detroit Lake area of Oregon; Grimm, set and filmed in Portland; Hello Larry, set in Portland; Leverage, set in Portland beginning with season 5; filmed in Oregon since season 2

7. The Way West - Wikipedia

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   The Way West is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. [1] The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 [2] and became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark.

8. Amanda (novel) - Wikipedia

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   On the Oregon Trail, she meets and befriends several characters, including Helen Jorgenson, a girl of her own age, and Ben Compton, who becomes a romantic interest as well later in the book. Amanda's character changes throughout the book, from spoiled society girl to hardworking pioneer woman.

9. Astoria (book) - Wikipedia

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   In 1834, John Jacob Astor commissioned Washington Irving – at that time one of the best-known American authors – to write the book as an official history of his company's Astor Expedition to Oregon. [3] The proposal was a continuation of a long-standing relationship between the two men that lasted until Astor's death in 1848.