Quotes by Francis Parkman

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.

#Francis Parkman

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and...

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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

#Francis Parkman

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were...

#Francis Parkman

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at...

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It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow...

#Francis Parkman

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality...

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Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after...

#Francis Parkman

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

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Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth...

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Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.

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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene...

#Francis Parkman