Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
Content:  The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman. It was originally serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849. The book is a first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux. Some later printings such as the 18th edition (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) included illustrations by James Daugherty.
Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
Content:  The book was reviewed favorably by Herman Melville, although he complains that it demeaned American Indians and that its title was misleading (the book covers only the first third of the trail). "The Oregon Trail appeared in 1849, and with its publication Parkman was launched upon his career as a storyteller without peer in American letters. ... It is the picturesqueness, the racy vigor, the poetic elegance, the youthful excitement, that give The Oregon Trail its enduring appeal, recreating for us, as perhaps does no other book in our literature, the wonder and beauty of life in a new world that is now old and but a memory." - Historian Henry Steele Commager
Title: Oregon Trail
Content: Myres, Sandra L., ed. Ho for California!: Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library (2007) ; Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. University of Virginia Press., personal account by a famous historian Myres, Sandra L., ed. Ho for California!: Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library (2007) ; Parkman, Francis, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. University of Virginia Press., personal account by a famous historian 
Title: The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Content: George Howe Colt "Part Laura Ingalls Wilder, part Jack Kerouac, The Oregon Trail is an idiosyncratic and irresistible addition to the canon of American road-trip literature." ; Kirkus Reviews "Astonishing...By turns frankly hilarious, historically elucidating, emotionally touching, and deeply informative...An inspired exploration of American identity." ; Publishers Weekly "''An entertaining and enlightening account of one of America’s most legendary migrations. Even readers who don’t know a horse from a mule will find themselves swept up in this inspiring and masterful tale of perseverance and the pioneer spirit. 
Title: The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Content:  The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey is a 2015 non-fiction book by Rinker Buck, author of Flight of Passage (Hyperion Books, 1997). The Oregon Trail is an account of Buck's epic 2011 journey along the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. It was published by Simon & Schuster and is available in hardcover, audio book and eBook.
Title: Oregon Trail
Content: Bagley, Will. So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 (University of Oklahoma Press; 458 pages; 2010). First book in a projected four-volume study of the course and impact of western migration. ; Dary, David. The Oregon Trail: An American Saga (Alfred A. Knopf: 2004). A one-volume history of the Oregon Trail. ; Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail (2nd ed. 2001) excerpt and text search ; Federal Writers' Project. The Oregon trail: the Missouri River to the Pacific ocean (1939) online edition, 244pp ; the standard scholarly history the standard scholarly history the standard scholarly history 
Title: The Oregon Desert
Content:  The Oregon Desert highlights the people, places, plants, and animals of Oregon's high desert. Jackman contributed scholarly chapters on geology, geography, flora, fauna, and the life of Native Americans in the high desert. Long added first-hand narratives about his life on the high desert using humorous anecdotal stories. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, the book "successfully blended natural science with cowboy humor and scholarly prose with casual meanderings. It is a celebration of rural Western storytelling."
Title: The Knickerbocker
Content: The Oregon Trail, by Francis Parkman – An 1846 story of exploring the West published in 21 installments. It portrays heroic frontiersmen, struggling immigrants, and savage Native Americans. Though it is a romantic work, Parkman does not shy from the violence of the frontier, providing his audience a more realistic view of the frontier than some of his contemporaries. However, he does place emphasis on the beauty of the conquered nature over the wild. ; "Scalp-Hunter," by Francis Parkman - A short story of 1845, chronicling the young Parkman's experiences in the American wilderness. The story contains frenzied hunting scenes, 
Title: Oregon Trail
Content:  The Oregon Trail was a 2170 mi east-west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of what is now the state of Kansas and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. The western half of the trail spanned most of the current states of Idaho and Oregon. The Oregon Trail was laid by fur traders and trappers from about 1811 to 1840, and was only passable on foot or by horseback. By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, 
Title: Peter Crawford (land surveyor)
Content: The overland journey to Oregon in 1847 : an autobiography on the Oregon Trail ; Narrative of the overland journey to Oregon ; Peter Crawford's Cowlitz journal ; first published writings of the founder of Kelso 

Question: Who is the author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life?
Answer: Francis Parkman.