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1) Oregon geographic names

Author

McArthur, Lewis A

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference Book, Reference Use Only

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Contains more than 5,400 entries of state place names, giving dates when the names were first used, reasons for the choice of names, and insight into the history of each name.

2) Requiem for a people: the Rogue Indians and the frontiersmen

Author

Beckham, Stephen Dow

Series

Civilization of the American Indian volume 108
Northwest reprints

Language

English

Formats

Book, Reference Book

3) The Oregon trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-mountain life

Author

Parkman, Francis

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...

4) The Oregon Trail

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

Oxford World's Classics
Washington Square Press book
Penguin classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Reference Book

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Originally serialized in Knickerbocker's Magazine between 1847 and 1849, The Oregon Trail is a fascinating chronicle of Francis Parkman's travels on the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1846 through the western states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Living and hunting with a tribe of Native Americans for a period of time, Francis Parkman captures the spirit of the old west in this gripping 19th century narrative. Fans of the old west...