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1) The Oregon trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-mountain life

Author

Parkman, Francis

Series

works of Francis Parkman. Centenary edition
Great illustrated classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Reference

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. “The Oregon Trail” offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer travel. Altering the course of American history and shaping early views of Native Americans, it denounces, in its descriptions of the Oglala...

2) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West

Author

Brown, Dee Alexander

Language

English

Description

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...