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

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• Francis Parkman:

  Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of sca

• Francis Parkman:

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

• Francis Parkman:

  The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard

• Francis Parkman:

  The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the g

• Francis Parkman:

  We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an

• Francis Parkman:

  We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

• Francis Parkman:

  We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, th

• Francis Parkman:

  We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

• Henry St. John:

  Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleas

• Henry St. John:

  Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.