 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1914 - 440 pages
...divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration ; but vvhatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...land of promise, are happy enough to escape from it. ... The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants at their camps around Independence had heard... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1918 - 428 pages
...the various motives that give impulse to this strange migration; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...or mere restlessness, certain it is that multitudes 20 bitterly repent the journey, and after they have reached the land of promise, are happy enough to... | |
 | Eugene Manlove Rhodes - 1921 - 328 pages
...whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition of life, or a desire of shaking off the restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness,...it is that multitudes bitterly repent the journey. The year was 1846; the place, Independence, in Missouri ; that strange migration was 9 the winning... | |
 | Gregory H. Nobles - 1997 - 306 pages
..."perplexed myself to divine the various motives that give impulse to this strange migration; ... an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness." (Parkman, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate, was also going west, but with a very clear goal... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 2002 - 404 pages
...restlessness, certain it is, that multitudes bitterly repent the journe), and, after they have reached the laud of promise, are happy enough to escape from it. In...seven or eight days we had brought our preparations nearly to a close. Meanwhile our friends had completed theirs, and, becoming tired of Westport, they... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...understanding and no sympathy for the motives which animated them, which he casually conjectured to be "an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness." He was even less charitable toward the Mormon bands which, after being driven out of Illinois and Missouri,... | |
 | Tom Rea - 2006 - 336 pages
...divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...land of promise, are happy enough to escape from it." 10. Of the 500,000 or more emigrants who traveled the road between 1840 and the completion of the transcontinental... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 2007 - 329 pages
...various motives that give impulse to this strange migration ; vbot whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...and after they have reached the land of promise are nappy enough to escape from it In the course of seven or eight days we had brought our preparations... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 550 pages
...divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration; but whatever they may be, whether an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire...seven or eight days we had brought our preparations nearly to a close. Meanwhile our friends had completed theirs, and, becoming tired of Westport, they... | |
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The emigrants, however, are not all of this stamp. Among them are some of the vilest outcasts in the country. I have often perplexed myself to divine the various motives that give impulse to this migration ; but whatever they may be, whether an insane... 
