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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.
The Oregon Trail is a 1959 American CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color Western film directed by Gene Fowler Jr. and starring Fred MacMurray, William Bishop and Nina Shipman. [2] [3] [4] The film's sets were designed by the art directors John B. Mansbridge and Lyle R. Wheeler.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Ostensibly based on the 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie Jr. (1901-1991), the film is a drama about a band of settlers traveling by covered wagon train across the American frontier of the West to the Oregon Country on the Oregon Trail in 1843. It includes on-location cinematography by William H. Clothier.