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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.