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Francis Parkman
1823–1893
A vivid 19th-century historian and travel writer, he turned firsthand adventure and deep archival research into sweeping narratives of North America. His books are remembered for their energy, dramatic scenes, and lasting influence on how many readers imagined the colonial frontier.
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
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
Vassall Morton: A Novel
by Francis Parkman
France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
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
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 studied at Harvard and developed an early fascination with the American wilderness and with the long struggle between France and Britain in North America. In 1846 he traveled west on the overland trails, an experience that later became The Oregon Trail, one of his most widely read books.
Parkman is best known for France and England in North America, a major multivolume history of the colonial era. He combined careful research with a strong narrative style, which helped make his histories popular far beyond academic readers. His writing was also shaped by serious health problems that troubled him for much of his life, yet he continued to produce ambitious work over decades.
Today he is remembered as one of the most prominent American historians of the 19th century. Modern readers often value both the literary power of his books and the window they offer into the ideas and attitudes of his own time.