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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…
• 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.
• Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their…
• We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule…
• 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…
• 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…

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