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3 unusual facts about Francis Parkman


Black-tailed deer

In Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, an eyewitness account of his 1846 trek across the early West, while within a two-day ride from Fort Laramie, Parkman writes of shooting what he believes to be an elk, only to discover he has killed a black-tailed deer.

Chatillon-DeMenil House

In 1848, Lux married Henry Chatillon, who had become somewhat famous as the leader of the expedition of Francis Parkman in The Oregon Trail.

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (ISBN 0-8032-8746-1) is the second volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, France and England in North America, originally published in 1867.


Hubert Howe Bancroft

Historian Francis Parkman praised Bancroft's The Native Races in The North American Review, but Lewis H. Morgan was more critical, based on his newly published theory of Indian culture, in an article named Montezuma's Dinner.

Lewis Hector Garrard

The book is often compared with Francis Parkman’s, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life.


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