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The Oregon Trail
Author: Francis Parkman
Edited with an introduction by Bernard Rosenthal, Professor of English, State University of New York, Binghamton

Oxford University Press, 2008

From our Purveyor of Books:
Having lived most of my life on the East Coast, a planned move to the West Coast (now, nearly 20 years ago) was terrifying. I was sure I'd never feel at "home" in California. Wasn't everyone a laid back surfer? Tan, thin, young, and gorgeous? "Dude" and "Yo" were not in my vocabulary! And, how would we ever move all our belongings and begin a new life?

I read Francis Parkman's account of his adventurous trek across the country and realized, if he could do it, I could do it. This book began my love affair with the West. After reading Parkman's narrative I moved on to other books - women's accounts of their Overland Journey made me ashamed to have been so fearful of my own journey. How dare I be so afraid! Our challenges were so minor compared to those of the men and women who went before us.

This is one of the classics of western writing and belongs in every Westerner's library.

From the Publisher:
The Oregan Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him two thousand miles. His detailed description of the journey, set against the vast majesty of the Great Plains, has emerged through the generations as a classic narrative of one man's exploration of the American Wilderness.

Paperback. 384 pp.