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Parkman, F.La Salle and the discovery of the great west. (France and England in North America.) Part 3.
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.15
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.15
A series of historical narratives in which the romantic story of the rise, the marvelous expansion and the ill-fated ending of the French power in North America is brilliantly told.
———Montcalm and Wolf. Vols. 1 and 2.
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1892 $3
The names on the title page stand as representatives of the two nations whose final contest for the control of North America is the subject of the book.
———Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. (France and England in North America.)
Maps.Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.50
Mr. Parkman makes the rugged and ragged growth of the French occupancy of Canada full of interest to the reader.
———The old regime in Canada. (France and England in North America. ) Part 4.
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.50
Each history is the highest authority on the subject of which it treats and is as interesting and fascinating as any novel.
———Pioneers of France in the new world. (France and England in North America.) Part 1.
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $1.50
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894
In the present volumes the nature of the subject does not permit an unbroken thread of narrative and the unity ..of the book lies in its being an illustration of the singularly contrasted characters and methods of the rival claimants to North America.
Bost., Little, Brown & Co., 1894 $3
These volumes aim to portray the American forest and the American Indian at the period when both received their fatal doom.