The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds Quotes

“As eager American settlers poured into the Mexican territory of Texas, editor John L. O’Sullivan wrote that “it is our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” The populace was soon persuaded that it was America’s “manifest destiny” not only to inhabit Texas, but to fill up the entire continent, from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic shore.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Stay Alive: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds, The Donner Party Expedition, 1846

“It seems that hunger makes a man forget his thankfulness.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Stay Alive: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds, The Donner Party Expedition, 1846

“We didn’t have no words in common but understood each other just fine.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Stay Alive: The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds, The Donner Party Expedition, 1846