Author:Francis Parkman

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Francis Parkman (1823–1893)

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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. — Excerpted from Francis Parkman on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Francis Parkman

Works

• The Oregon Trail (1847) (transcription project)
• The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851)
• Vassall Morton (1856)
• The Book of Roses (1866)

France and England in North America

• The Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
• The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867)
• La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1869)
• The Old Régime in Canada (1874)
• Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877)
• Montcalm and Wolfe (1884)
• A Half Century of Conflict (1892)

Contributions to Appletons'

• “Frontenac, Louis de Buade, Comte de,” in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• “La Salle, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de,” in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1892)
• “Montcalm Gozon de Saint Véran, Louis Joseph, Marquis de,” in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)

Letters

• Letter from Carl Schurz, February 24, 1881
• “Letter to St. Botolph Club” from St. Botolph Club, Visit of the Hon. Carl Schurz to Boston, March 1881.

Works about Parkman

• "Francis Parkman" by James Russell Lowell (1892)
• "Note on the Completion of Francis Parkman's Work" by Edward Eggleston (1892)
• "Francis Parkman" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1893)
• “Parkman, Francis,” in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• “Parkman, Francis,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons
• “Parkman, Francis”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed., 1911)
• “Parkman, Francis,” in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)