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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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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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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
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Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
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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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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
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France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
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The [French] Revolution began at the top—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect — and propagated itself downwards.
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Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
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The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?
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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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In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.
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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 of the house.
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The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose, for he is never left alone, with the repletion of incessant and inevitable feasts.
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America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.
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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 or lost, we cannot tell.
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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 with us as a reserve in case of accident.
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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 was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
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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 water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
September 16, 1823
Died:
November 8, 1893
(aged 70)
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