Francis Parkman and the Plains Indians

By Jane Shuter, Francis Parkman

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Indianists, History, Travel, Oglala Indians, Biography, Dakota Indians, Social life and customs, Indians of North America

Description: The author, a wealthy Bostonian with a deep interest in Native American culture, provides a first-person account of his experiences living with a band of Oglala Sioux while they traveled the Oregon Trail during the summer of 1847.