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• Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men…
• Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where…
• It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some…
• 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…
• 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.

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