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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 JourneyGlazier, Willard W.

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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

Name: 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
Author: Glazier, Willard W.

Glazier, Willard W.

United States -- Description and travel

Rainstorm Anticipated--Friends of the Horse--Seven-Sealed Wonder--
    Newspaper Controversy--Lecture at Corinthian Hall--Colonel
    J. A. Reynolds--Pioneer History--Colonel Nathaniel Rochester--William
    Fitzhugh--Charles Carroll--Rapid Growth of City--Sam
    Patch--Genesee Falls--The Erie Canal--Mount Hope--Lake
    Ontario--Fruit Nurseries                                   147

  CHAPTER X.

  ROCHESTER TO BUFFALO.

  _Thirty-fifth Day_--Churchville--Cordiality of the People--Dinner
    at Chili--_Thirty-sixth Day_--Bergen Corners--Byron Centre--Rev.
    Edwin Allen--_Thirty-seventh Day_--Batavia--Meet a Comrade of
    the Harris Light Cavalry--_Thirty-eighth Day_--"Croft's"--More
    Trouble with Mosquitoes--Amusing Episode--_Thirty-ninth Day_--
    Crittenden--Rural Reminiscences--_Fortieth Day_--Lancaster--Lectured
    in Methodist Church--Captain Remington                     158

  CHAPTER XI.

  THREE DAYS AT BUFFALO.

  "Queen City" of the Lakes--Arrival at the Tift House--Lecture
    at St. James Hall--Major Farquhar--Aboriginal History--The
    Eries--Iroquois--"Cats"--La Hontan--Lake Erie--Black Rock--War
    of 1812--The Erie Canal--Buffalo River--Grosvenor Library--Historical
    Society--Red Jacket--Forest Lawn--Predictions
    for the Future                                             171

  CHAPTER XII.

  BUFFALO TO CLEVELAND.

  _Forty-fourth Day_--On the Shore of Lake Erie--_Forty-fifth Day_--Again
    on the Shore of Erie--Bracing Air--Enchanting Scenery--Angola--Big
    Sister Creek--_Forty-sixth Day_--Angola to Dunkirk--_Forty-eighth
    Day_--Dunkirk to Westfield--Fruit and Vegetable
    Farms--Fredonia--_Forty-ninth Day_--Westfield to North East--Cordial
    Reception--_Fiftieth Day_--North East to Erie--Oliver
    Hazzard Perry--_Fifty-first Day_--Erie to Swanville--_Fifty-second
    Day_--Talk with Early Settlers--John Joseph Swan--_Fifty-third
    Day_--Swanville to Girard--Greeted by Girard Band--Lecture at
    Town Hall--_Fifty-fourth Day_--Girard to Ashtabula--Lecture
    Postponed--_Fifty-fifth Day_--Ashtabula to Painesville--The Centennial
    Fourth--Halt at Farm House--_Fifty-sixth Day_--Reach
    Willoughby--Guest of the Lloyds                            183

  CHAPTER XIII.

  FIVE DAYS AT CLEVELAND.

  An Early Start--School Girls--"Do you Like Apples, Mister?"--Mentor--Home
    of Garfield--Dismount at Euclid--Rumors of the
    Custer Massacre--Reach the "Forest City"--Met by Comrades of
    the G. A. R.--Lecture at Garrett Hall--Lake Erie--Cuyahoga
    River--Early History--Moses Cleveland--Connecticut Land Company--Job
    Stiles--The Ohio Canal--God of Lake Erie--"Ohio
    City"--West Side Boat Building--"The Pilot"--Levi Johnson-Visit
    of Lorenzo Dow--Monument Square--Commodore Perry--Public
    Buildings--Euclid Avenue--"The Flats"--Standard Oil
    Company                                                    206

  CHAPTER XIV.

  CLEVELAND TO TOLEDO.

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