The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman, the author of The operating theater Trail, encountered more different tribes of Indians and terrains as he traveled tungsten across the United States and his witnesss on both(prenominal) of these matters seemed to change as he got further and further westsideward. In the beginning Parkman seemed apprehensive when utterance about the Indians, either mentation of them as poor or of violent in nature no matter the blot they were in. He and his party were perpetually on guard when n ahead of time any of these the great unwashed. Parkman eventually cut the Indians as a muckle struggling for their survival in a land where it is non so easy to do. opus he wanted on that point to be westward involution he realized that this was not unsloped a lead  just it was home to umpteen different peoples on the way. Parkman view on the American west changed much the way his opinions on the Indians did. At first he believed that the road to get to the west was hard and at time it was very unfulfilling. As he and his team of men travelled he realized what peach that this land held and the reward that he might face at the end of the journey. Yes it was tough in the beginning for all of them but in the end it do the trip worthwhile.\nThroughout The Oregon Trail there is an key feeling the Parkman was looking dismantle upon the Indians that his party would encounter along their journey. This was even noticeable when they were just beginning to travel through and through St. Louis. Parkman made it clear that he thought little of the Indians and that they were a very poor people by the way that he described them. He says that they are, noble men in half-civilized primp  (Parkman II). Parkman is showing that his normal stump for Indians is that they dress in untamed garments that are a trample below that of the attire that a white person would wear. Parkman says many little things in the early parts of the trip that shows that he has a distaste for the Indians. When he saw the group of Shawanoe...