Francis Parkman Small 275×320 Medium 549×640 Large 879×1024 Download Tiff Original 2060×2400 | (4.9 MB) Description Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven volume France and England in North America. Keywords Author, historian, kauthor, portrait Galleries Famous People: P, Historians Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 7) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)