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Francis Parkman traveled across North America and obtained firsthand experiences about nature, hardships, and the unknown. He developed his quest for knowledge as a child on the Hall Farm in Quincy, Massachusetts. Parkman battled the degenerating loss of his health, the loss of only son, and the loss of his wife. He compiled his wisdom in letters, journals, articles, and books; and Parkman.
Francis Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. His work has been praised by historians who have published essays in new editions of his work, including Pulitzer Prize winners C. Vann Woodward, Allan Nevins and Samuel Eliot Morison. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. Be forewarned that Parkman was a man.
All quotations in this essay from Parkman’s published works are taken from Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, 2 vols., (New York, 1983), that is, the Library of America edition, with the exception of those found in Francis Parkman, The Conspiracy of Pontiac, 2 vols., (Boston and New York, 1901), vols. 14-15 of the Frontenac edition.
Francis Parkman Jr. life heavily influence his decision on writing about back woods history; born on the 16th September, 1823 (2) he was sent to live with his paternal grandfather who owned a 3000-arce ranch. While there he would learn and live how to be a true pioneer, returning at the age of 16 he would attend Harvard. Although his family saw his line of work as ungentlemanly he still went.
Francis Parkman was a descendant of Elias Parkman, who had settled in Massachusetts in the 17th century, and his mother’s family was connected to the Cottons among whom had been the Puritan divine Cotton Mather. His grandfather, Samuel Parkman, was a wealthy merchant and shipowner, and his father a prominent Unitarian minister. In 1840, after attending schools in Medford and Boston, Parkman.
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