Red River Settlement

Famous quotes containing the words red, river and/or settlement:

    I am so tired of being a bachelor
    I could give all my heart to that Red Moll
    That had but the one eye.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I cannot tell how many times we had to walk on account of falls or rapids. We were expecting all the while that the river would take a final leap and get to smooth water, but there was no improvement this forenoon.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
    John Adams (1735–1826)