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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than research, however patient and scrupulous...

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The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the gr...

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The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard r...

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Francis Parkman

Historian

Born: 1823-09-16

Died: 1893-11-08

Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was the patriarch of the Flores-Parkman family, and 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.More