The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
by Francis Parkman
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The conquest of Canada was an event of momentous consequence in American history. It changed the political aspect of the continent, prepared a way for the independence of the British colonies, rescued the vast tracts of the interior from the rule of military despotism, and gave them, eventually, to the keeping of an ordered democracy. Yet to the red natives of the soil its results were wholly disastrous. Could the French have maintained their ground, the ruin of the Indian tribes might long show more have been postponed; but the victory of Quebec was the signal of their swift decline... show lessTags
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Mr. Parkman was a fine writer, and he published this book in 1851. Since it revealed the Indians as treacherous savages, and the Indian Wars weren't over yet, the book did well at the shops. There is some fine writing. But since the treachery was a use of what are now standard guerrilla tactics, I'm just not angry. I read a 1972 reprint, and it was a pleasant experience.
Any pro-Indian statements are banished to the footnotes, but they are to be found in some numbers there.
Any pro-Indian statements are banished to the footnotes, but they are to be found in some numbers there.
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Early in his youth, this Boston-born historian was infected with what he called (in language offensive to today's readers) "Injuns on the brain." For the rest of his life, he dedicated himself to writing what he had called at the age of 18 "a history of the American forest." In 1846, following the completion of his studies at Harvard College, he show more set out in company with a cousin on an expedition from St. Louis over the Oregon Trail to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, a journey that brought him into close contact with the Lakota Indians. Back in Boston, he turned the journal that he had kept on the trail into a series of sketches that were published in the Knickerbocker Magazine and afterwards as a book, The California and Oregon Trail, Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (1849), now better known by the abbreviated title of a later revised edition, The Oregon Trail. By this time, Parkman had well underway the historical work that would occupy him during the rest of his life, an account of the French and English in North America, the first installment of which was his History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and the War of the North American Tribes against the English Colonies, published in 1851. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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