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Francis Parkman
1823–1893
Remembered for turning early American history into vivid narrative, this Boston-born writer is best known for The Oregon Trail and his sweeping multivolume history of France and England in North America. His books combine firsthand adventure, wide reading, and a strong sense of drama.
16 Audiobooks
France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
by Francis Parkman
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
by Francis Parkman
A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II
by Francis Parkman
France and England in North America, Part IV: The Old Régime In Canada
by Francis Parkman
France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV
by Francis Parkman
Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour Lakes George and Champlain; Niagara; Montreal; Quebec
by Francis Parkman
France and England in North America, Part VI : Montcalm and Wolfe
by Francis Parkman
Vassall Morton: A Novel
by Francis Parkman
France and England in North America, Part III: The Discovery of the Great West (1870)
by Francis Parkman
France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
by Francis Parkman
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
by Francis Parkman
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Francis Parkman
by Francis Parkman
The Book of Roses
by Francis Parkman
About the author
Born in Boston in 1823, Francis Parkman grew up in a prominent family and studied at Harvard. As a young man he was fascinated by the American frontier, and in 1846 he traveled west along the Oregon Trail, an experience that later became the basis for The Oregon Trail.
Parkman went on to build his reputation as one of the major American historians of the 19th century. His best-known achievement was the multivolume France and England in North America, a large-scale history of the struggle between European powers on the continent, written with the pace and color of a novel.
He worked through serious health problems for much of his life, including trouble with his eyesight, yet continued to research and write. By the time of his death in 1893, he had left behind books that were valued not only for their historical importance but also for their strong, memorable storytelling.