La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Mississippi River
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Mississippi River
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1910
Category : America
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Mississippi River
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Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 425 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
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ISBN : 9780781258920
Bonded Leather binding
Author : Parkman Francis
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1901
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ISBN : 9780243763658
Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
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ISBN : 9781435338845
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2016-09-09
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ISBN : 9781537564944
Francis Parkman, Jr. (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) 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 was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum from 1858 until his death in 1893 René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. He set out from France with four ships but never reached his destination. Landing somewhere in East Texas, he and his men were ravaged by disease, weakened by hard labor, even gored by buffalo as they tried to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River, which was obscured by the sandy sameness of the Gulf coastline. In 1687, on a third attempt to locate the river by an overland route, La Salle was murdered by his own men in the desolate country between the Trinity and Brazos rivers. His body was never found.First published in 1869, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West is the vivid, richly detailed story of that final grim expedition, told by America's foremost historian.
Author : Francis Parkman
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Page : 354 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 1956
Category : West (U.S.)
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Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 1911-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465529470