Francis Parkman : The Oregon Trail / The Conspiracy of Pontiac (The Library of America)From boyhood, wrote Francis Parkman, I had a taste for the woods and the Indians. This Library of America volume, containing The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac, brilliantly demonstrates this lifelong fascination. His first book, The Oregon Trail, is a vivid account of his frontier adventures and his encounters with Plains Indians in their final era of nomadic life. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada,