Question
In an 1849 book titled for this route published in Knickerbocker's Magazine, a volunteer soldier nicknamed "Tête Rouge" becomes gravely ill. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this wagon route that began in Independence, Missouri, and extended to the Willamette Valley in a namesake territory.
ANSWER: Oregon Trail
[10h] This historian’s book on the Oregon Trail is subtitled Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life. This historian also wrote a seven-volume history of European colonization titled France and England in North America.
ANSWER: Francis Parkman Jr.
[10m] The opening chapter of Parkman's The Oregon Trail is titled for this place. An essay that describes this place as “the meeting point between savagery and civilization” was read at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
ANSWER: the American frontier
<Noah Sheidlower, American History>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
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| Stanford | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |