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| CATEGORIES ABOUT THE OREGON TRAIL: SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY-MOUNTAIN LIFE | |
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''The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life'' (also published as ''The California & Oregon Trail'') is a book written by Francis Parkman . It was originally serialized in twenty-one instalments in ''Knickerbocker's Magazine'' (1847-49) and subsequently published as a book in (1849). The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 1700-mile summer tour of the U.S. State s of Nebraska , Wyoming , Colorado , and Kansas when Parkman was 23. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting Buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux . The book was reviewed favorably by Herman Melville , although he complained that it demeaned American Indians and that its title was misleading (the book covers only the first third of the trail). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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