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"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
- Thomas Paine
(1737 - 1809),
'The Age of Reason'
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 463 pages
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0140390421
Release Date: Jan 11, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Francis Parkman set out west from St. Louis in order to see the prairie for himself and "to observe the Indian character". Along the way he encountered some "unexpected impediments" to this aim. In fact, Parkman's whole journey seems full of misadventures, which he describes with dry good humor and a charming ability to laugh at himself.
The series of minor disasters makes The Oregon Trail entertaining, but it is also a valuable narrative of life on the prairie and has some wonderfully detailed descriptions of Indian villages and customs. The author is clearly impressed with native sportsmanship, and brings the thrill of the hunt to life in vivid detail.
Parkman has a boundless fascination for all he sees, and seems to fall in love with the prairie itself over the course of the book. He transforms this enthusiasm into his descriptions, which often verge on the poetic.
Unlike many explorers of the West, Parkman is not hardedged, and while he is accurate, he is also somewhat romantic. This book is not saturated with the violence that characterizes much literature of this genre. His portraits of native people, while not always flattering, seem good-spirited.
This is not a scientific or anthropological treatise, but Parkman has a passion for these subjects which, coupled with his unique adventures, makes this a very appealing narrative.
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Authentic Descriptions and True Adventure
-- Mark P. Christians, September 5, 2000
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The definitive edition."...the most authoritative text, based on scholarly collection of all editions published in Parkman's lifetime and containing excellent critical and analytical introduction, textual and factual notes, Frederic Remington's illustrations and map. This splendid edition is essential to an understanding of the Oregon Trail"--Robert L. Gale
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
The Oregon Trail, edited [by] Seltskog…is the most authoritative text, based on scholarly collation of all editions published in Parkman's lifetime and containing an excellent critical and analytical introduction, textual and factual notes, Frederic Remington's illustrations and maps. This splendid edition is essential to an understanding of the Oregon Trail.
—(Robert L. Gale, Francis Parkman) —Robert L. Gale
I owe a great deal to an appallingly large number of historians but I am glad to name those from whom I have taken most or on whom I have principally relied: foremost and always Parkman.
—(Bernard DeVoto, The Course of Empire) —Bernard DeVoto
It was his own fortitude and perseverance—perseverance under the most grievous physical affliction—that made it possible for Parkman to see as much as the West as he did, to experience at first hand the life of the explorer and the trapper and hunter and even of the Indian. And it was his arduous preparation, his intellectual curiosity, his talent for observation, his enthusiasm, his gift for dramatic narrative that enabled him to reconstruct from his fragmentary Journals what he had seen and to convey it with such useful exuberance to generations of readers….It is this picturesqueness, this racy vigor, this poetic eloquence, this unconquerably useful quality which gave The Oregon Trail its perennial charm, recreating for us, as perhaps no other book in our literature, the wonder and beauty and intensity of life in a new world that is now old and but a memory.
—Henry Steele Commager
| |  | | | | 1 | The Frontier | 1 | | 2 | Breaking the Ice | 9 | | 3 | Fort Leavenworth | 19 | | 4 | "Jumping off" | 23 | | 5 | The "Big Blue" | 34 | | 6 | The Platte and the Desert | 46 | | 7 | The Buffalo | 58 | | 8 | Taking French Leave | 72 | | 9 | Scenes at Fort Laramie | 87 | | 10 | The War Parties | 101 | | 11 | Scenes at the Camp | 122 | | 13 | Ill-Luck | 139 | | 14 | Hunting Indians | 146 | | 15 | The Ogillallah Village | 167 | | 16 | The Hunting Camp | 187 | | 17 | The Trappers | 209 | | 18 | The Black Hills | 218 | | 19 | A Mountain Hunt | 222 | | 20 | Passage of the Mountains | 234 | | 21 | The Lonely Journey | 248 | | 22 | The Pueblo and Bent's Fort | 266 | | 23 | Tete Rouge, the Volunteer | 274 | | 24 | Indian Alarms | 279 | | 25 | The Chase | 289 | | 26 | The Buffalo Camp | 298 | | 27 | Down the Arkansas | 313 | | 28 | The Settlements | 329 |
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