Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Tanned due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Hardcover book. Published by New American library not clear what year. Very collectible. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> More than a century ago a young Easterner namedFrancis Parkman set out to explore life in the uncivilizedWest. With his friend and companion Quincy Adams Shawhe traveled up the Oregon Trail to the camps of thePawnee and the Sioux. This book is the fascinating journalof that hazardous experience. It is an authentic record oflife on the trail an eyewitness account of the Mormonsand outlaws trappers and Indians pioneers and adven-turers who tried to conquer the frontier back in the dayswhen America was young. Historian Henry Steele Com-mager wrote: ?The Oregon Trail appeared in 1849 andwith its publication Parkman was launched upon hiscareer as a storyteller without peer in American letters…. It is the picturesqueness the racy vigor the poeticeloquence the youthful excitement that give The OregonTrail its enduring appeal recreating for us as perhapsdoes no other book in our literature the wonder and beautyof life in a new world that is now old and but a memory.’With a Foreword by A. B. Guthrie Jr.