Name: The Oregon Trail
ISBN: 9780486424804

Francis Parkman

The author chronicles his 1846 exploration of the American West, describing his traveling hardships, the region's landscapes and wildlife, Mormons traveling to Utah, others emigrating to Oregon and California, the daily lives of Plains Native Americans, and the summer migration of a Native American village.

The Oregon Trail

Andrew John Kinney

Very interesting, in an 1846 kind of way. I read it in college years ago.

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was ok! 

Almost rated 3 stars but...

The Oregon Trail or Let's Shoot Some Buffalo or Indians Suck, Whites Rule.

I really love the way Parkman describes a scene. and for that and that only I'll read more of his stuff and try something else too, what made me not put 3 stars, was that he was talking about shooting buffalo so much that at some point I was searching for a page in the damn book that didn't include the word "buffalo", like, seriously.. we get it, you shot and hunt buffalos for fun and food and whatever. WE. GET. IT. 

And, also, the constant hate on mexicans and indians, that went along with the constant (white) men rule all and we're superior and with all of his fancy talking. That's a bit excused cuz it's my personal pet peeve, fancy talkers. Every now and then he would think of something he said when something would happen and that something would be such an amazing thing to say at the moment like it's straight out of a fucking poem, so, no, you're not convincing to me and I won't bite and I'll be cringing to your quotes.

Anyway... so for all of that plus all the racism, he gets one star off cuz it made me angry lots of times while reading. The dude REALLY hates indians and he makes sure to talk about it lots of times.

As I explained in other books about "those times", I choose not to judge someone's book based on what it was like to live in times like these back then and whatnot, but I choose to judge someone's book by what the person's like, so if you're a racist like Twain or Parkman or whoever, you're shitty and that's that for me, because people who weren't fucking racists, they too were alive back then.

Oh well, it was ok. I liked the theme and times, I love the old west, and the way he describes everything from the places to the tribes and whatnot, he's writings are holding up great, even though sometimes I kinda doubt that some things happened the way he says they did, mostly cuz of what was happening, Parkman should be dead like a handful of times from a buffalo to an accident happening or illness or whatever. And that makes me wanna read more of his stuff to really get into his books.

The Oregon Trail

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