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Title: A fantastic account, but the title is misleading
Review: Parkman is one of my favorite authors, and the only thing I can add to what others have said in reviews before mine is that this is NOT a history told from the point of view of an emigrant - in fact, he views them (and nearly everyone else) with the disdain that only a Bostonian can render. So, although incredibly entertaining and informative, he does not travel the Oregon trail in the traditional sense but wanders far and wide from it, and does not cross the Rockies; so anyone looking for a narrative history of what it was like to travel the full length of the Trail might be disappointed.
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