author
Francis Parkman
1823–1893
A master storyteller of early North American history, he turned years of research and firsthand travel into vivid books that still feel adventurous. He is best remembered for The Oregon Trail and the sweeping multi-volume history France and England in North America.
15 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
France and England in North America, Part VI : Montcalm and Wolfe
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 III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
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
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
by Francis Parkman
The Book of Roses
by Francis Parkman
About the author
Born in Boston in 1823, Francis Parkman grew into one of the best-known American historians of the nineteenth century. He studied at Harvard and, while still young, set himself an ambitious goal: to write a major history of the struggle between France and Britain in North America.
That project became his seven-volume France and England in North America, the work most closely linked with his name. He also wrote The Oregon Trail, based on an 1846 journey west that gave his writing a strong sense of landscape, danger, and lived experience.
Parkman wrote despite serious health problems, including chronic trouble with his eyesight, and his books are often praised for combining careful research with the energy of narrative writing. He died in 1893, leaving a body of work that helped shape how generations of readers imagined the colonial history of North America.