The Oregon Trail
Date1943
ClassificationsBooks and Manuscripts
Credit LineGift of The Edward H. and Yvonne J. Boseker Collection
Object numberSC.2024.001
DescriptionFrancis Parkman’s classic book on Westward expansion, The Oregon Trail, first was serialized in Knickerbocker’s Magazine (1847-49), and then was published in book form in 1849. The book is Parkman’s first-person account of a 2-month summer journey he took in 1846, at the age of 23, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas, including three weeks he spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux. This edition, gifted to the Hilbert Museum in 2025 by Yvonne Boseker, was printed for members of the Limited Edition Club in 1943. Maynard Dixon, one the most popular artists portraying the Old West, was commissioned to create the illustrations, and it turned out to be his last major illustration project. On View
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1940s
1940s
