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Oregon Trail

Oregon Trail

By: Francis Parkman Jr.
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Summary
 The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. (Summary by Wikipedia)Copyright Modern Genre Art Drama & Plays
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