The Oregon Trail of Francis Parkman - Sunny Hills High School

PREFATORY NOTE
This edition of The Oregon Trail has been prepared for
the teacher, the schoolroom, and the general reader, not for
the technical student of the Old West. Thus from the Notes
much collateral information has been excluded, and in the
Introduction the attempt has been to emphasize only the intellectual
outlines and the philosophic significance of the
subjects broached.
The editor is indebted to Dr. Frederick Jackson Turner,
Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin,
to Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Secretary of the Wisconsin
Historical Library, and especially to Louise Phelps
Kellogg, of the same library, for useful information, and
to his wife for much clerical assistance.
W.E.L.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN,
MADISON, APRIL 30, 1910
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