Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
Francis ParkmanFort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
Francis ParkmanFrance built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.
Francis ParkmanThe 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.
Francis Parkman