William Parkman (195 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condition: Good. '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 flavour,' 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.…

Condition: Very Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. …

Condition: Good. 1 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1 Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1 Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Slipcased editon.

Hardback. Condition: Good. '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 flavour,' 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.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 6th Printing. 354 Pages Sixth printing of the Eleventh Edition. Editor's note (by William R. Taylor) at the beginning of the book is dated October 1955. The Preface (by Parkman) to this Eleventh Editiion is dated December 10 1878. Pages very lightly age-tanned but not brittle. Some fairly un-obtrusive marginal notes and underlining throughout. Beyond that is a tight, square book with bright covers.This classic study of La Salle's last expedition by historian Francis Parkman, known to Americans for his earlier book The Oregon Trail, was first published in 1869. Commissioned by France to explore and govern the Western territory, La Salle's expedition went off course and he and his men were lost in the wilderness and endured disease and death. Eventually La Salle was killed by his own men, and his body was never found. No part of Parkman's text proper has been omitted or changed in any way. His extensive and lengthy notes have been considerably cut in this printing, however, all notes of substantive interest or importance have been included. Parkman dedicated this eleventh edition To The Class of 1844, Harvard College, by one of their number.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean, straight green book w/large pastedown of Indian scene. Map end papers, frontis and 3 other illus. by Jackson. Introduction by Howard R. Driggs and notes by M. D. Holmes. Some black spots to back cover. Jackson, William H. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine in like dustjacket.

paperback. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 951 p. Library of America (Hardcover), 53. Audience: General/trade. Stated first printing. Tan cloth binding with ribbon placeholder. There is a library pocket glued to an end page and a library stamp on the title page. Otherwise clean and tight. No external library marks. Very good in very good dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. a nice, clean copy, like new, octavo, 951 pages, first printing thus, brown cloth with gilt titles on spine, issued without dust jacket, in original publisher's slipcase.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG. First Printing, tan cloth, bagged for protection, missing slipcase, slipcase not included, no jacket issued with this edition, crisply bound, exceedingly clean paper. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. The Library Of America.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: --. 951 pages; b/w illustrations; interior clean; binding solid; ribbon marker intact; light shelf wear to edges of brown cover; red title band on spine; no dj. Hardcover.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Brown Cloth Boards No Jacket as issued in cream slipcase. Prompt shipping from Colorado. Mailed in Box. ~"Buy with Confidence, Satisfaction Guaranteed.