The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

Author: Parkman, Francis

Publication: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1892.

Description: Francis Parkman's autobiographical account of his two-month summer journey in 1846 through the states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Black-and-white illustrations throughout by Frederick Remington. Bound in full brown calfskin leather, with lettering and decoration stamped in gilt and additional decoration stencilled in red, gray, and black; top edge gilt. 9 x 6.25 inches; xvi, 411, [1] pages, [10] leaves of plates. Bookseller's label and ownership markings on endpapers. Cracked joints, front board beginning to separate, spine chipped at the head and tail, scattered foxing to the interior and textblock edges, and old tape on endpapers. Fair to Good. First appeared as a serial in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and as a book published by Hurst & Company in 1849.