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A few hours’ ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house. (Francis Parkman Quotes)
We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident. (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him (Francis Parkman Quotes)
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph’s farther to the northward (Francis Parkman Quotes)
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph’s trail (Francis Parkman Quotes)
We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident (Francis Parkman Quotes)
The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule (Francis Parkman Quotes)
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house (Francis Parkman Quotes)
It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses (Francis Parkman Quotes)
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution (Francis Parkman Quotes)
A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri (Francis Parkman Quotes)
We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures (Francis Parkman Quotes)
His books mark the man, all for his theme and his purpose, nothing for himself. Crude in style, full of the superficial errors of carelessness and haste, rarely diffuse, often brief to a fault, they bear on every page the palpable impress of truth (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise (Francis Parkman Quotes)
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; england reversed the system, and succeeded (Francis Parkman Quotes)
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea, a land of romance, adventure, and gold (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes (Francis Parkman Quotes)
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect (Francis Parkman Quotes)