POPULAR WORKS
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Captain Willard Glazier,
THE SOLDIER AUTHOR.
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I. Three years in the Federal Cavalry.
II. Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape.
III. Battles for the Union.
IV. Heroes of Three Wars.
V. Peculiarities of American Cities.
VI. Down the Great River.
VII. Headwaters of the Mississippi.
VIII. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback.
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Captain Glazier's works are growing more and more popular every day. Their delineations of _social_, military _and frontier_ life, constantly varying scenes, and deeply interesting stories, combine to place their writer in the front rank of American authors.
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OCEAN TO OCEAN
ON
HORSEBACK;
Being
THE STORY OF A TOUR IN THE SADDLE FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC; WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE EARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES AND TOWNS ALONG THE ROUTE; AND REGIONS TRAVERSED BEYOND THE MISSISSIPPI; TOGETHER WITH INCIDENTS, ANECDOTES AND ADVENTURES OF THE JOURNEY.
BY
CAPTAIN WILLARD GLAZIER.
Author of "Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape," "Three Years in the Federal Cavalry," "Battles for the Union," "Heroes of Three Wars," "Peculiarities of American Cities," "Down the Great River," "Headwaters of the Mississippi," Etc.
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Illustrated.
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PHILADELPHIA: EDGEWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1899.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1895, by
WILLARD GLAZIER,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
TO
THE MEMORY
OF
My Beloved Mother,
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Ocean to Ocean on Horseback by Willard W. Glazier
- 2: Considerable unfinished literary work
- 3: Ocean to Ocean on Horseback by Willard W. Glazier
- 4: An Early Start School Girls Do you Like Apples
- 5: Ride from Elmore Lecture at Lyceum Hall Forsyth Post
- 6: Illinois 354 CHAPTER XXI
- 7: Ocean to Ocean on Horseback by Willard W. Glazier
- 8: San francisco and end of journey
- 9: Ocean to Ocean on Horseback by Willard W. Glazier
- 10: To look upon the majestic Mississippi
- 11: I at once sought the leading publishers
- 12: Fully resolved upon retracing my steps to Albany
- 13: With an easy and graceful movement under the saddle
- 14: Sounded on the occasion of the Boston Massacre
- 15: To the cradle of Liberty Faneuil Hall
- 16: Ticknor among the most generous of its benefactors
- 17: The straightening of the thoroughfares
- 18: The late Gardner Brener presented it to the city in 1868
- 19: Doric Hall contains busts of Sumner
- 20: May be mentioned the historic codfish
- 21: 000 volumes and rare autograph manuscripts
- 22: Is the oldest church edifice in the city
- 23: Wellesley has almost created a new era in woman's education
- 24: Boston made Harvard and Harvard Boston
- 25: The Harvard Musical Association
- 26: The Massachusetts General Hospital which
- 27: As lecturing was a new experience to me
- 28: Treating of the battles of Trenton and Princeton
- 29: Captain Glazier has elements in him which
- 30: Adjutant general Department of Massachusetts
- 31: The second city in Massachusetts
- 32: The Bigelow Monument was dedicated
- 33: Which aptly illustrates the rapid growth of Worcester
- 34: Commander of the Springfield Post
- 35: Robert Breck was called to the church in Springfield
- 36: Illustration THE SPRINGFIELD ARMORY
- 37: And the Wesson Car Manufactory
- 38: Along the bank of the Westfield River
- 39: Illustration SUBURB OF PITTSFIELD
- 40: Illustration A SCENE IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS
- 41: In crossing the Pittsfield Mountain
- 42: Their leader was none other than Killian Van Rensselaer
- 43: Found that General Townsend was not
- 44: Illustration VIEW IN SCHENECTADY
- 45: Sixteen miles from Schenectady
- 46: Illustration A MILL STREAM IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY
- 47: Well known through the firm of the Remingtons
- 48: Chittenango was not reached until ten o'clock
- 49: It was through Father Le Moyne
- 50: When the Marquis de La Fayette visited Syracuse
- 51: Accompanied me as far as Geddes
- 52: Who came over to Weedsport and escorted me to their village
- 53: When Montezuma was reached we were glad to rest
- 54: Anxious to make Rochester at the earliest moment possible
- 55: Soon after the advent of Colonel Rochester and his friends
- 56: But he couldn't jump the Genesee Falls
- 57: And four elegant bridges cross the Genesee
- 58: Soon after breakfast in Churchville
- 59: And made my journey to Batavia exceedingly pleasant
- 60: Stopping at the little post village of Corfu for dinner
- 61: Captain Remington called for me in the morning
- 62: Having found there huts covered with basswood bark
- 63: Who was with one of the retreating parties
- 64: Which are a striking feature of Buffalo
- 65: One of these is the Grosvenor Library
- 66: And out Ohio to the Buffalo Road
- 67: The ride from North Evans to Angola was most delightful
- 68: Continued on the Shore Road from Dunkirk
- 69: Reached Westfield in the evening
- 70: Erie undoubtedly has a bright future before her
- 71: Swan was one of the earliest settlers in Erie County
- 72: I decided to waive my lecture at Ashtabula
- 73: And then moved forward in the direction of Painesville
- 74: As there was no hotel at Wickliffe
- 75: To the mouth of the Cuyahoga River
- 76: Lorenzo Dow was announced to preach
- 77: Stretches off eastward from the square
- 78: Ore docks and coal and lumber yards famous the country over
- 79: Which were donated to the Soldiers' Monument Fund at Dayton
- 80: There were nearly seven hundred people in Huron
- 81: Although it has not made it a Sandusky or a Cleveland
- 82: Captain Culver is a comrade in the G
- 83: Has given a park and a fine library to Fremont
- 84: Ordered Paul and saddled him myself at Elmore
- 85: So ended the great battle of the Maumee
- 86: And Toledo was reached at three o'clock
- 87: Very soon after the trouble with Michigan
- 88: And a modest landmark in my journey from Toledo to Detroit
- 89: As I reached the outskirts of Monroe
- 90: At the head of eight hundred Kentuckians
- 91: And the following notice from the Monroe Monitor
- 92: Bulkley bought the old desk at which he and Custer had sat
- 93: And covered with Chickahominy mud
- 94: A small village seven miles north of Rockwood
- 95: Custer National Monument Association
- 96: With Detroit as my evening objective
- 97: Captain Hampton and I belonged to separate messes
- 98: Fort Ponchartrain became a reality
- 99: When he reached the council house he said to Gladwyn
- 100: If not the proud spirit of Pontiac
- 101: But the present Detroit is interesting enough without these
- 102: Having before me a lecture appointment at Ypsilanti
- 103: Left Ypsilanti bright and early in order to save time
- 104: As a memento of my stay at Jackson
- 105: He came out to Michigan when it was a wilderness
- 106: I waited in Parma until nearly ten o'clock
- 107: More traffic than any one of the rivers of Michigan
- 108: And proudly referred to by the people of Albion
- 109: Uniting here with the Kalamazoo
- 110: Had an early breakfast at Kalamazoo
- 111: Prominent among the neat cottages
- 112: And then caught an early train for Grand Rapids
- 113: By a saddler or a veterinary surgeon
- 114: Taking the Michigan Central to Niles
- 115: After my lecture of the previous evening at La Porte
- 116: Illustration RURAL SCENE IN MICHIGAN
- 117: For his loyal services had endeared Decatur to his country
- 118: This was a great day for Decatur
- 119: Set in soon after my arrival at Dowagiac
- 120: When we drew up in front of Galion Inn
- 121: 50 morning train at Michigan City for Chicago
- 122: Where finer edifices rose upon the old ruins
- 123: Claiming a more propitious christening
- 124: After Fort Dearborn was again demolished
- 125: To connect the Illinois and Chicago rivers
- 126: The Pacific coast has Chicago for her smelting furnace
- 127: It is wainscoted with Italian marble
- 128: Voorhees is a perfect gintleman
- 129: All the fascination of the ride came back
- 130: Illustration COUNTRY ROAD IN ILLINOIS
- 131: Illustration AN ILLINOIS HOME
- 132: As I had determined to reach Ottawa by nightfall
- 133: Upon leaving La Salle at three o'clock in the afternoon
- 134: While his language is eloquent and fascinating
- 135: Reaching Wyanet early in the evening
- 136: Illustration AN ILLINOIS VILLAGE
- 137: The population of Davenport is now about 20
- 138: But Black Hawk and the Sacs still refused to leave
- 139: The volunteers were under the command of General Whiteside
- 140: Garlock was a native of the Empire State
- 141: Fifty five miles from Davenport
- 142: Marengo is eighty five miles from Davenport
- 143: On reaching the outskirts of Grinnell
- 144: Which brought me to Des Moines
- 145: The next day a copy of the Des Moines Leader reached me
- 146: Illustration A NIGHT AMONG COYOTES
- 147: Inquired the distance to Avoca
- 148: And the region contiguous is very hilly
- 149: Spans the Missouri and connects Omaha with Council Bluffs
- 150: And camped on the Omaha plateau
- 151: The first native Omaha boy first saw the light
- 152: Came almost entirely from Omaha
- 153: The weather had become very cold since leaving Omaha
- 154: The surface of Nebraska is extremely varied
- 155: And together they settled Cheyenne
- 156: And Cheyenne was declared the county seat
- 157: And 1870 saw Cheyenne established
- 158: Cheyenne was now well governed
- 159: The Arrapahoes rushed upon us with deafening yells
- 160: Illustration ESCAPE FROM THE ARRAPAHOES
- 161: The Arrapahoes returned the fire
- 162: When Young entered the valley Utah belonged to Mexico
- 163: And of all the leading Mormons
- 164: According to the Mormon theory
- 165: Such was the blood that settled Ogden
- 166: Laid out the settlement and called it Ogden
- 167: Illustration MINING CAMP IN NEVADA
- 168: I rode twenty four miles to Elko
- 169: Thirty six miles from Sacramento
- 170: Sutter owned twelve thousand cattle
- 171: And dashed over to consult with Sutter
- 172: Sutter fared but little better
- 173: Naming the settlement Sacramento
- 174: The schools of California are justly famous
- 175: San Francisco was without male population
- 176: To sail from New York to New Orleans and Chagres
- 177: In the new streets of San Francisco
- 178: Enchanting delight of the city was gambling
- 179: Originally San Francisco consisted of wind swept hills
