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

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution..

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. Whil….

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

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

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 res….

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 whic….

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 ….

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?.

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 tyra….

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full..

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detaile….

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….

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;….

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and inca….

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded..

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 compete….

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….

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

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him..

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days..