Francis Parkman Quote

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.


The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (ed. 1849)


Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves...

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves...

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves...

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves...