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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: VIVID: FASCINATING: NEW Library of America First Edition hardcover (1991) Second Printing (c. 1994), EXCELLENT matte-cream LOA slipcase w/ gilt-ruled borders & LOA-logo gilt-stamped on front panel, NEW sand-tan silk-finish rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps w/ tan silk page-marker ribbon bound-in from top, NEW white-on-brown LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Linotron Galliard on SUPERB unblemished acid-free Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.22", 0.62 kg, 951 pp. In Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.48" x 1.52", 0.73 kg * CONTENTS: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie & Rocky-Mountain Life (1); The Conspiracy of Pontiac: Volume I (343) & Volume II (613); Chronology (919), Note on the Texts (931), Notes (936) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "From boyhood," wrote Francis Parkman, "I had a taste for the woods & the Indians." His lifelong fascination w/ these American subjects are brilliantly recorded in "The Oregon Trail" & "The Conspiracy of Pontiac", his two earliest works. Parkman began his travels to the northern wilderness during his student years at Harvard in the 1840s, then went west after graduation. His first & most famous book, "The Oregon Trail", is a vivid account of his adventures on the open frontier & his encounters w/ Plains Indians in their last era of free, nomadic life. "The Conspiracy of Pontiac & 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 & chronicles the defeats in which both the eastern Indians & their forest "received their final doom". * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: FRANCIS PARKMAN, Jr. (September 16, 1823-November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie & Rocky-Mountain Life" & his monumental 7-volume "France & England in North America". These works are still valued as historical sources & as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University & author of several books on the topic. ABOUT THE EDITOR: WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, editor of this volume, is professor emeritus at the SUNY (Stony BrooK) & former program director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of "Cavalier and Yankee" and "In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York". * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.