The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life

Manufacturer:
Customer Rating:
List Price: $3.65
Sale Price: View Sale Price
Availibility: View Product Availability

Buy Now

Product Description

Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.

Product Details

No details are available for this product

Video Reviews

No video reviews found for this product.

Customer Reviews

Pioneer Historian

Review Date: November 23, 1997

Reviewer: ,

As a young college student, Francis Parkman, the later noted historian of the early West, goes to the land of the Lakotas and experiences their life. This is a personal history of the travels of the author through the lands of the Lakota before the great American westward expansion. Tales of Indian life and their "wars" with each other. Also tells first hand of the author's maturation in this environment. Should be required reading for any "lover of the wild west" because "This Was The It Was".

a great read

Review Date: June 8, 2009

Reviewer: S. MCLEOD,

Very enjoyable! You can't beat a first person report of traveling through Indian territory! The descriptions of the perils of the journey plus first hand experiences in dealing with the native population make you feel as if you are there, sitting in the teepee, watching as an Indian woman kills and cooks a puppy because you are an honored guest. Great descriptive writing; blood, guts, wildflowers, horses, sunsets, and the beautiful, healthy forms of our Native Americans while they were still free.

Very Interesting

Review Date: December 29, 2009

Reviewer: e. vaughan, port orchard wa

There are a great many things about Native American life on the plains that I did not realize before reading this narrative. The level of warfare for instance. I wonder if this was heightend at that time related to population pressures from the east ( other tribes and whites ) Anyway, the writer tells an amazing tale of risk and daring while describing the lives of the natives- and we find out some things about the attitudes of the newcomers also. Keeps moving along-- no slow spots.

I'm addicted to stories like this

Review Date: December 10, 2009

Reviewer: C. Anderson, The City that Reads

I love to read about the daily living of people in history. I don't know what it is that drags me to it every single time. I liked this story alot.