Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman ( born September 16, 1823 in Boston, † November 8, 1893 in Jamaica Plain ( Massachusetts)) who is an American historian.

In his youth Parkman times lived among the Indians and described it in his novel, The Oregon Trail by 1849. Later, Parkman Professor at Harvard. In his work, he examined the North American colonial history. His main work is the overall view in seven volumes France and England in North America, on which he worked from 1865 to 1892.

In his honor, the Francis Parkman Prize is named.

Works

  • The Oregon Trail (1847 )
  • The Conspiracy of Pontiac ( 1851)
  • Vassall Morton (1856 ), short story
  • The Pioneers of France in the New World (1865 )
  • The Book of Roses ( 1866)
  • The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (1867 )
  • La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West ( 1869)
  • The Old Regime in Canada (1874 )
  • Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV ( 1877)
  • A Half Century of Conflict ( 1892)
  • The Journals of Francis Parkman. Two Volumes. Edited by Mason Wade. New York: Harper, 1947.
  • The Letters of Francis Parkman. Two Volumes. Edited by Wilbur R. Jacobs. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1960
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