We've had enough of this Wichita. We're going to a brand-new, two-fisted, rip- snorting country full of Indians, rattlesnakes, gun...-toters and desperadoes. Whoopee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The remnant of Indians thereabout--all but exterminated in their recent and final war with regular white troops, a war waged by th...e Red Men for their native soil and natural rights--had been coerced into the occupancy of wilds not far beyond the Mississippi.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
According to the historian, they escaped as by a miracle all roving bands of Indians, and reached their homes in safety, with thei...r trophies, for which the General Court paid them fifty pounds. The family of Hannah Dustan all assembled alive once more, except the infant whose brains were dashed out against the apple tree, and there have been many who in later time have lived to say that they have eaten of the fruit of that apple tree.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While yet alive, before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers; and he co...uld hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swam away ... for so long, so many dark ages;Mthese bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians only, made beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there! I could understand better for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea-monsters,--how all history, indeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as... good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians "had lost a great deal."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal... soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: 'No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American ideal ... of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and I...ndians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden--as an unpatriotic act--that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improveme...nt; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, "Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth--who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Puritans, to keep the remembrance of their unity one with another, and of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their... forest settlement CONCORD.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »