France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC AND THE INDIAN WAR AFTER THE CONQUEST OF CANADA 2 vols. THE OREGON TRAIL 1 vol. LIFE OF PARKMAN. By Charles Haight Farnham 1 vol. ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. Portrait of Francis Parkman. 2. Jacques Cartier. From the painting at St. Malo. 3. Madame de la Peltrie. From the painting in the Convent des Ursulines. 4. Father Jogues Haranguing the Mohawks. From the picture by Thule de Thulstrup. 5. Father Hennepin Celebrating Mass. From the picture by Howard Pyle. 6. La Salle Presenting a Petition to Louis XIV. From the painting by Adrien Moreau. 7. Jean Baptiste Colbert. From a painting by Claude Lefèvbre at Versailles. 8. Jean Guyon before Bouillé. From a picture by Orson Lowell. 9. Madame de Frontenac. From the painting at Versailles. 10. Entry of Sir William Phips into the Quebec Basin. From a picture by L. Rossi. 11. The Sacs and Foxes. From the picture by Charles Bodmer. 12. The Return from Deerfield. From the painting by Howard Pyle. 13. Sir William Pepperrell. From the painting by Smibert. 14. Marquis de Beauharnois, Governor of Canada. From the painting by Tonnières in the Musée de Grenoble. 15. Marquis de Montcalm. From the original painting in the possession of the present Marquis de Montcalm. 16. Marquis de Vaudreuil. From the painting in the possession of the Countess de Clermont Tonnerre. 17. General Wolfe. From the original painting by Highmore. 18. The Fall of Montcalm. From the painting by Howard Pyle. 19. View of the Taking of Quebec. From the early engraving of a drawing made on the spot by Captain Hervey Smyth, Wolfe's aid-de-camp. 20. Col. Henry Bouquet. From the original painting by Benjamin West. 21. The Death of Pontiac. From the picture by De Cost Smith. 22. Sir William Johnson. From a Mezzotint engraving. 23. Half Sliding, Half Plunging. From a drawing by Frederic Remington. 24. The Thunder Fighters. From the picture by Frederic Remington. 25. Francis Parkman. From a miniature taken about 1844. 26. Francis Parkman. From a photograph taken in 1882. It is hardly necessary to quote here from the innumerable tributes to so famous an American author as Francis Parkman. Among writers who have bestowed the highest praise upon his writings are such names as James Russell Lowell, Dr. John Fisk, President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University, George William Curtis, Edward Eggleston, W. D. Howells, James Schouler, and Dr. Conan Doyle, as well as many prominent critics in the United States, in Canada, and in England. In two respects Francis Parkman was exceptionally fortunate. He chose a theme of the closest interest to his countrymen,--the colonization of the American Continent and the wars for its possession,--and he lived through fifty years of toil to complete his great historical series. The text of the New Library Edition is that of the latest issue of each work prepared for the press by the distinguished author. He carefully revised and added to several of his works, not through change of views, but in the light of new documentary evidence which his patient research and untiring zeal extracted from the hidden archives of the past. Thus he rewrote and enlarged "The Conspiracy of Pontiac"; the new edition of "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West" (1878), and the 1885 edition of "Pioneers of France" included very important additions; and a short time before his death he added to "The Old Régime" fifty pages, under the title of "The Feudal Chiefs of Acadia." The New Library Edition therefore includes each work in its final state as perfected by the historian. The indexes have been entirely remade. LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, 254 Washington Street. Boston.