Here were vast projects, projects perhaps beyond the scope of private enterprise, conceived and nursed in the brain of a penniless young
Table of Contents of Francis Parkman's books on French Canada published on this site.
Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 5
Frontenac was full of faults; but it is not through these that his memory has survived him.Previously in The Discovery of the Great West.Our
Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 4
In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name . . . .”Previously in The Discovery of the Great
Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 3
La Salle discovered the Ohio, and in all probability the Illinois also; but that he discovered the Mississippi has not been proved, nor, in the light
Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 2
Landing, passing the fort, and walking southward along the shore, one would soon have left the rough clearings, and entered the primeval
Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 1
This begins Volume 3 of Francis Parkman's classic series on France in North America. The volume is titled "The Discovery of the Great
Parkman End of Volume 2
The Providence of God seemed in their eyes dark and inexplicable; but, from the stand-point of Liberty, that Providence is clear as the sun at
Parkman Vol. 2, Chapter 33
Of the four kindred communities, two at least, the Hurons and the Neutrals, were probably superior in numbers to the Iroquois.Previously in The
The Last of the Hurons
It is a matter of some interest to trace the fortunes of the shattered fragments of a nation once prosperous, and, in its own eyes and those of its