...it. There is also a small bastion at a third angle. Within are two series of buildings for quarters, store-houses, &c. The position of the fort is not...new abode ; in a few weeks they become reconciled, but less attached than to their former home; and, at length, by the habit of frequent migration, they...

...rapid disintegration.* . . , . .' . . .• . ' * The inhabitants of this frontier,' says the Author, ' are mostly emigrants from Tennessee, and are hospitable...interrupted without occasioning some disquietude. They an; at first discontented in their new abode ; in a few weeks they become reconciled, but less attached...

...strangers. Many of them are possessed of considerable wealth. In the inhabitants of the New Suites and Territories, there is a manifest propensity, particularly...new abode ; in a few weeks they become reconciled, but less attached than to their former home ; and at length, by the habit of frequent migration, they...

...government survey of the Missouri, is a hundred and twenty miles. See our volume v, note 31. — ED. to our estimate, is one hundred and forty-two miles,...new abode; in a few weeks they become reconciled, but less attached than to their former home; and, at length, by the habit of frequent migration, they...

...really is a deep and mystical longing. In the early nineteenth century, the writer Edwin James noted "a manifest propensity, particularly in the males,...westward, for which it is not easy to account." The esteemed historian Francis Parkman remembered that he, too, was gripped by this mystical longing for...

...finishing touches, James, barely four years older than his young protege, records a similar sentiment: "In the inhabitants of the new States and Territories...propensity, particularly in the males, to remove westward." Their principal motivation: "fondness for an adventurous, unsettled life." Account, 1:105 (xiv:i6g)....