Occupation: Historian Birth: September 16, 1823 Death: November 8, 1893
The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?.
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri..
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution..
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail..