Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (LOA #53)Library of America, 1 mai 1991 - 951 pages “From boyhood,” wrote Francis Parkman, “I had a taste for the woods and the Indians.” This Library of America volume, containing The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, brilliantly demonstrates this lifelong fascination. His first book, The Oregon Trail, is a vivid account of his frontier adventures and his encounters with Plains Indians in their final era of nomadic life. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Parkman’s first historical work, portrays the fierce conflict that erupted along the Great Lakes in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War and chronicles the defeats in which the eastern Native American tribes “received their final doom.” The Oregon Trail (1849) opens on a Missouri River steamboat crowded with traders, gamblers, speculators, Oregon emigrants, “mountain men,” and Kansas Indians. In his search for Natives untouched by white culture, Parkman meets the Whirlwind, a Sioux chieftain, and follows him through the Black Hills. His descriptions of natives’ buffalo hunts, feasts and games, feuds, and gift-giving derive their intensity from his awareness that he was recording a vanishing way of life. Praised by Herman Melville for its “true wild-game flavor,” The Oregon Trail is a classic tale of adventure that celebrates the rich variety of life Parkman found on the frontier and the immensity and grandeur of America’s western landscapes. In The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1851), Parkman chronicles the consequences of the French defeat in Canada for the eastern Native American tribes. At the head of the Native American resistance to the Anglo-American advance in the 1760s was the daring Ottawa leader Pontiac, whose attacks on the frontier forts and settlements put in doubt the continuation of western expansion. A powerful narrative of battles and skirmishes, treaties and betrayals, written with eloquence and fervor and filled with episodes of heroism and endurance, The Conspiracy of Pontiac captures the spirit of a tragic and tumultuous age. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. |
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Table des matières
CHAPTER PAGE I The Frontier | 9 |
Breaking the Ice | 16 |
The Oregon Trail I | 20 |
Fort Leavenworth | 26 |
Jumping Off | 29 |
The Big Blue | 39 |
The Platte and the Desert | 55 |
The Buffalo | 67 |
The Black Hills | 224 |
A Mountain Hunt | 228 |
Passage of the Mountains | 239 |
The Lonely Journey | 254 |
The Pueblo and Bents Fort | 272 |
Tête Rouge the Volunteer | 279 |
Indian Alarms | 284 |
The Conspiracy of Pontiac | 343 |
Taking French Leave | 82 |
Scenes at Fort Laramie | 96 |
The War Parties | 110 |
Scenes at the Camp | 130 |
Luck | 147 |
Hunting Indians | 154 |
The Ogillallah Village | 176 |
The Hunting Camp | 195 |
The Trappers | 215 |
CHAPTER II | 390 |
CHAPTER III | 403 |
1763 | 621 |
CHAPTER XIX | 640 |
CHAPTER XX | 659 |
THE IROQUOIS AMBUSCADE OF THE DEVILs HOLE | 671 |
Chronology | 919 |
Note on the Texts | 931 |
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Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (LOA #53), Volume 1 Francis Parkman Affichage d'extraits - 1991 |
Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (LOA #53), Volume 1 Francis Parkman Affichage d'extraits - 1991 |
Francis Parkman: The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (LOA #53) Francis Parkman Aucun aperçu disponible - 1991 |
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