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A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
Francis Parkman / Historian
Banks
Ride
River
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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Climate
England
New England
Mild
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Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
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Descent
Humanity
Visible
Scale
Crossing
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We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
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Prairie
Woods
Fairly
Broad
Bushes
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The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
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Exposed
Iroquois
Towns
Side
Fortified
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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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Solitary
Trails
Walking
Joseph
Trail
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
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Block
House
Two
Defensive
Fort
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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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Earning
France
Versailles
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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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Morning
Kansas
Miles
Missouri
Mouths
Mouth
Next Morning
Reached
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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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America
Long
Revolution
Scene
Europeans
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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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England
Exclusion
Principles
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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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Faithful
Humanity
Use
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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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France
Issues
Reaching
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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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Civilization
Crushed
Neglected
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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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Europe
Shadow
World
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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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Construction
House
Iroquois
Leaving
Sides
Two Sides
Wide
Houses
Passage
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A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.
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Farms
Intervals
Miles
Military
Fort
Led
Scattered
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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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Adventure
Land
Sea
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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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Men
Morning
Appearance
Buffalo
Missing
Missing You
We Cannot
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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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Air
Aspect
Blue
Blue Sky
Clouds
Cotton
Hazy
Light
Prairie
Sky
Visible
Breath
Piles
Stirred
Wore
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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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Men
Animal
Driven
Eight
Horse
Accident
Additional
Animals
Besides
Horses
Led
Mule
Reserve
Spare
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The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.
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Exception
Load
Luggage
Reader
Bull
Companions
John
Leaves
No Exception
Rule
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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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Glowing
Gorgeous
Sky
Sunset
Below
Extensive
Glow
Meadow
Pools
Reflected
Shadowy
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The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
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Independence
California
Camps
Heard
Oregon
Reports
Setting
Additional
Farther
Joseph
Parties
Several
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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.
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Art
Men
Conventionality
Elements
Fabric
Resources
Rude
Natures
Reduced
Struck
Suddenly
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Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.
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Horizon
Riding
Stretching
Advance
Creeping
Slowly
Mile
Passed
Plains
Rear
Scattered
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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 parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.
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Apprehension
Evident
Interruptions
Party
Trails
Advance
Interruption
Joseph
Mentioned
Mormons
Parties
Traces
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Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise.
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Art
Men
War
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In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.
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Ambitious
Character
Race
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The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.
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Achievement
Ambition
Circles
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The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.
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Expectations
Religious
Volunteer
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If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.
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Apology
Fruit
Way
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The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.
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Dream
Ocean
Pyramids
Sea
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When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.
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Discovery
Europe
Hunting
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The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.
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Ambition
Passion
Strong
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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes.
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History
Character
Taken
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