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Francis Jr Parkman
The burning frontier in 18th century America Following the defeat of France at the culmination of the Seven Years War, the colonists, their militia and British regiments serving in America…
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Francis Parkman (1823-93), a well-known historian of colonial North America, is still admired for his literary style. This famous early work (1847-9), reissued here in its revised sixth edition (1878)…
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain…
Deals with the attempts of the Spanish and the French Huguenots to occupy Florida as well as the expeditions of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain and French colonial endeavors…
Opening with the arrival of French missionaries in Canada in 1632, this book tells that the stage is set for the aggravation of old rivalries between the Huron and the…
Francis Parkman, Jr
Contains reports, memoirs, journals, letters, and other papers both official and private serving as background. This work details the Catholics’ attempts to convert the Huron, Algonquin, and Iroquois, as well…
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The firsthand account of a personal journey through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas in the 1840s, this classic work of American adventure is not only an excellent resource for eyewitness…
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author’s remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies; vibrant portraits of…
Title: The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century.
Author: Francis Parkman
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains…
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Parkman, American historian, studied and wrote about the history of Canada and the early Northwest. The monarchical administration of France, at the height of its power, grasped the North American…
Title: Montcalm and Wolfe. [With introductory chapters. 1710-1763.]
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the…
The History of the American West Collection is a unique project that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to easily access and explore works which have previously only been…
Francis Parkman, Jr.
Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life: Or The California and Oregon Trail (1849) is a historical book written by Francis Parkman Jr. The book is a detailed account of Parkman's journey…
Title: The Oregon Trail, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding…
Title: The Oregon Trail … Eighth edition, revised.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
Title: The Old Re gime in Canada [1653-1763] … Fourteenth edition.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of…
Title: Pioneers of France in the New World.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
Title: History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, and the war of the North American tribes against the English Colonies after the conquest of Canada. [With introductory chapters. 1608-1769.]
Publisher: British…
Title: Montcalm and Wolfe. [With introductory chapters. 1710-1763.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to…
Title: The California and Oregon Trail; being sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It…
Title: The discovery of the Great West. [1643-1689.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
Francis Parkman, JR. JR.
In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1894.
Includes: Early Spanish Adventure; Villegagnon; Jean Ribaut; Laudonniere; Conspiracy; Famine-War-Succor; Menedez; Massacre of the Heretics; Charles IX and Philip II; Dominque de Gourgues; Early French Adventure in North America; La…
In Five Volumes.
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) was an American historian, best known as the author of The Oregon Trail (1847) and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. These works…
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada V1 is a historical book written by Francis Parkman. The book provides a detailed account of the…
In Two Volumes.
La Jonquiere still clung to the hope of a successful stroke at Annapolis, till in October an Acadian brought him the report that the garrison of that place had received…