{"product_id":"the-oregon-trail-isbn-9780785836889","title":"The Oregon Trail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnjoy this fully and beautifully illustrated edition of this classic travel memoir written by Francis Parkman, the nineteenth century's most famous historian. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oregon Trail: An Illustrated Edition of Francis Parkman's Western Adventure\u003c\/i\u003e is Francis Parkman's best-known work. It wasn't intended to be a book from the onset, and its pages comprise twenty-one installments that originally ran in \u003ci\u003eThe Knickerbocker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Oregon Trail \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003erecreates the untamed West \u003c\/b\u003ethrough the eyes of adventure-thirsty Parkman, who was a revered historian, a horticulturalist, and author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Parkman, a well-to-do man from Boston, traveled west in the late 1840s to Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. \u003ci\u003eThe Oregon Trail\u003c\/i\u003e covers his \u003cb\u003etwo months on the first third of the Oregon Trail\u003c\/b\u003e and offers beautifully written profiles of the American West in the days before the expansion of Eastern settlers into the Western United States. Passages about \u003cb\u003emajestic mountains\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ewild buffalo herds\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eroaring rivers \u003c\/b\u003emake Parkman's work a \u003cb\u003eclassic travel and nature narrative\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn May 1846, Parkman arrived in Westport, Missouri, intent on visiting a \u003cb\u003eNative American village \u003c\/b\u003ealong 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 continent's native population. Parkman completes his sketches of the Oregon Trail with the quiet, thoughtful 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":"Crestline Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47819501699301,"sku":"NP9780785836889","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-oregon-trail-isbn-9780785836889","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}