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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.
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. Historic migration route spanning Independence, MO–Oregon City, OR For other uses, see Oregon Trail (disambiguation). The Oregon Trail The route of the Oregon Trail shown on a map of the western United States from Independence, Missouri (on the eastern end) to Oregon City, Oregon (on ...
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.
You could say that in one parallel universe, The Oregon Trail is a flourishing path to the West. In the other, unfortunately, it's about to be ripped from existence, nothing but a memory. That is ...
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.
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Map from The Vikings team, or the Old Oregon Trail 1852–1906, by Ezra Meeker Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker erected this boulder near Pacific Springs on Wyoming's South Pass in 1906. [1] The historic 2,170-mile (3,490 km) [2] Oregon Trail connected various towns along the Missouri River to Oregon's Willamette Valley.