Francis Parkman: 34 books

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FRENCH EXPLORERS. – LE SUEUR ON THE ST. PETER'S. – CANADIANS ON THE MISSOURI. – JUCHEREAU DE SAINT-DENIS. – BÉNARD DE LA HARPE ON RED RIVER. – ADVENTURES OF DU TISNÉ. – BOURGMONT VISITS THE COMANCHES. – THE BROTHERS MALLET IN COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. – FABRY DE LA BRUYÈRE.

The war which in the British colonies was called Queen Anne's War, and in England the War of the Spanish Succession, was the second of a series of four conflicts which ended in giving to Great Britain a maritime and colonial preponderance over France and Spain. So far as concerns the colonies and...

This beautiful lake owes its name to Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec. In 1609, long before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, he joined a band of Huron and Algonquin warriors on an expedition against their enemies, the Iroquois, since known as the Five Nations of New York. While gratifying...

Example in this ebook   It is needless to eulogize the Rose. Poets from Anacreon and Sappho, and earlier than they, down to our own times, have sung its praises; and yet the rose of Grecian and of Persian song, the rose of troubadours and minstrels, had no beauties so resplendent...