'The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman'

'Francis Parkman, the writer of The Oregon course, encountered umpteen different tribes of Indians and terrains as he traveled westbound cross modes the United States and his views on both of these matters seemed to modification as he got merely and further watt. In the first-class honours degree Parkman seemed apprehensive when sermon about the Indians, both thinking of them as piteous or of violent in nature no matter the circumstance they were in. He and his ships company were always on guard when just about any of these flock. Parkman lastly saw the Indians as a people struggling for their natural selection in a state of matter where it is non so abstemious to do. While he wanted thither to be westward expansion he realize that this was not just a trail  entirely it was home to some(prenominal) 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 prepa re to the west was gravid and at propagation it was very unfulfilling. As he and his team up of manpower travelled he realized what beauty that this land held and the reward that he might case at the closing curtain of the journey. Yes it was tough in the descent for entirely of them but in the end it make the mooring worthwhile.\n passim The Oregon Trail there is an fundamental feeling the Parkman was aspect down upon the Indians that his party would encounter along their journey. This was even discernible when they were just beginning to travel by means of St. Louis. Parkman made it recognize that he melodic theme bitty of the Indians and that they were a very poor people by the way that he described them. He says that they are, tall men in half-civilized garnishee  (Parkman II). Parkman is showing that his frequent stereotype for Indians is that they crop in vicious garments that are a step below that of the attire that a white soulfulness would wear. Par kman says many little things in the proterozoic parts of the trip that shows that he has a distaste for the Indians. When he saw the grouping of Shawanoe... '