Quotes About Parkman

At the end of the eighteenth century, the three Orders of Saint Francis numbered a hundred and fifteen thousand friars and twenty-eight thousand nuns. Four popes, forty-five cardinals, and forty-six canonized martyrs were enrolled on their record, besides about two thousand more who had shed their blood for the faith. Their missions embraced nearly all the known world; and, in 1621, there were in Spanish America alone five hundred Franciscan convents.

wordy descriptions of the journey, which you can get from Parkman or Gregg if you want them – or from volume

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.