Summary Of The Oregon Trail By Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman wrote an important document about The Oregon Trail. Francis was born in Massachusetts,Boston but then sent off to his grandfather because he was a poor health child. He was born on september 16, 1823. At age 16 Parkman enrolled in Harvard and was accepted. Francis’s father wanted him to be a lawyer instead of Francis’s desire, journalism. After law school Parkman proceeded of what he desired. He learned how to sleep and hunt, and could survive alone by himself. Parkman has accomplished the desire that he had, he has wrote many books and has been recognized for such thing. In the document it tells the difficulty of traveling the Oregon Trail and why the Oregon Trail is so important at the time. Francis Parkman wrote the

Parkman impacted mostly the rough frontiersmen, immigrants, and Native Americans whom he encountered. In the book Francis Parkman expressed what the following has been through. Parkman spent a couple of nights with a indian tribe because they were moved from their group and put with a tribe. Also Shaw, Parkman’s friend in his group doctored some of the important indians. Mr. Parkman has also influenced our American civilization. Parkman also sided and help the Dakota Squaw tribe because he promised that he would protect him since his guide was married to a Dakota tribe women. He showed the great danger and challenges the immigrants and Native Americans went through in the Great

This book is a good resource for the American History students. There are many things that I learned and that I take for granted today. This book would help students to learned the risk of travel and that it isn’t as easy as it is now, that you have to plan for the worst because anything could happen in 2,170 miles. Also many people take medicine for granted but this book expresses the lack of medicine the indians had. The book would help students learned the worth of medicine because if someone that got sick that was traveling along then it would spread to the people around that sick one, and most they would all be affected by the disease. After reading the book, they will have learned a lot from this document, I do think it is important for other students should think about reading about the Oregon Trail and how it affected others at the time and how it is still affecting