Francis Parkman Memorial, 1897-1907 (1905 and 1906)

Location: Near Jamaica Pond Olmsted Park, Jamaica Plain, Boston

Description: Francis Parkman (1823-1893), America's greatest narrative historian, was the first great writer who understood the character and motive of the Native Americans. When twenty three and a Harvard graduate with high honors, a dead shot with a rifle, and a master of tame and wild horses, he rode west to witness the wilderness firsthand and passed several months with the unconquered Sioux. He wrote The Oregon Trail and described his monumental France and England in the New World as "the history of the American forest; for this was the light in which I regarded it." French's depiction of an Iroquois standing in a pine forest could not be more fitting for Parkman.

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