California and Oregon trail vs Prairie folks: Which Should You Read?

California and Oregon trail Francis Parkman · 1872 ★★★★☆ 3.6 381 pages · ≈ 7 h 03 m · Challenging

Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.

Prairie folks Hamlin Garland · 1892 ★★★★☆ 3.9 284 pages · ≈ 5 h 16 m · Challenging

Uncle Ripley was prejudiced in favor of the stranger, therefore, before he came opposite the potato patch, where the old man was "bugging his vines". The stranger drove a jaded-looking pair of calico ponies, hitched to…