"Our New England climate is mild and equable……" — Francis Parkman
"Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte."
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22 Quotes by Francis Parkman
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It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected…
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a…
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Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.
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Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet…
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We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an…
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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces,…
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Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton;…
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We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
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We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large…
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Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
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