Francis Parkman

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Francis Parkman

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According to Wikipedia, Francis Parkman Jr. was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a professor of horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic. Parkman wrote essays opposed to legal voting for women that continued to circulate long after his death. Parkman was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum from 1858 until his death in 1893.

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Francis Parkman's Published Works

Published Works

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century (29)
The conspiracy of Pontiac : and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada / by Francis Parkman. (29)
The conspiracy of Pontiac (25)
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (23)
The Failure of Universal Suffrage (20)
The Old Régime In Canada (19)
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV ; A half century of conflict ; Montcalm and Wolfe (15)
Montcalm and Wolfe (14)
Pioneers of France in the New World (13)
The Oregon Trail : sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain (9)
A half-century of conflict (9)
Some of the reasons against woman suffrage (5)
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The book of roses / by Francis Parkman. (0)
The romance of Canadian history (0)
Montcalm and Wolfe : France and England in North America part seventh (0)