The Oregon Trail (World Juvenile Library)

Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the first free page. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, small tears and some rubbing and edge wear. "Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was the patriarch of the Flores-Parkman family, and an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as historical sources and as literature. He was also a leading horticulturist, briefly a professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and author of several books on the topic. Parkman wrote essays opposed to legal voting for women that continued to circulate long after his death. Parkman was a trustee of the Boston Athenæum from 1858 until his death in 1893. " (from Wikipedia) .