Francis Parkman Quotes

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• It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of…
• America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
• Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
• 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…
• Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
• Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
• We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days…
• Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
• 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…
• 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…
• Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
• 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…
• The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
• 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…
• We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

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