The Francis Parkman Page

( 1823-1893 )
Major Works
William R. Taylor selected and annotated the texts for The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1991); David Levin selected and annotated the texts for France and England in North America, Volumes I and II (1983), all for Library of America. Also, Samuel Eliot Morison selected and edited The Parkman Reader, Little, Brown, 1955.
The Oregon Trail ( 1847 ). The record of Parkman's trip west to see the native Americans at first hand. His later books depended in part on his familiarity with the original peoples of this continent. On-Line
The Conspiracy of Pontiac ( 1851 ). His first history; it comes chronologically after the events of all his other historical works.
Vassall Morton ( 1856 ). A novel.
The Book of Roses ( 1866 ). A subject on which Parkman was an expert.
The Jesuits in North America ( 1867 ). For all of Parkman's anti-religiosity, he could write movingly about the sacrificial lives of these early missionaries.
The Discovery of the Great West ( 1869 ).
The Old Regime in Canada ( 1874 ).
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV ( 1877 ).
Montcalm and Wolfe ( 1884 ).
A Half Century of Conflict ( 1892 ).
The Journals of Francis Parkman. Two Volumes. Edited by Mason Wade. Harper, 1947.
The Letters of Francis Parkman. Two Volumes. Edited by Wilbur R. Jacobs. Oklahoma, 1960.

About Parkman
Charles Haight Farnham, A Life of Francis Parkman. Little, Brown, 1900.
Mason Wade, Francis Parkman: Heroic Historian. Archon, 1972. Parkman was heroic because he wrote his histories under the most adverse conditions.
Francis Parkman and The Oregon Trail.
Francis Parkman.

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