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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 — John Shaqi

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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

_Sixty-first Day_--Again in the Saddle--Call on Major Hessler--Donate
    Proceeds of Lecture to Soldiers' Monument Fund--Letters
    from General James Barnett and Rev. William Earnshaw--Stop
    for Night at Black River--_Sixty-second Day_--Mounted at Nine
    A.M.--Halted at Vermillion for Dinner--Lake Shore Road--More
    Mosquitoes--Reach Huron Late at Night--_Sixty-third Day_--Huron
    to Sandusky--Traces of the Red Man--Ottawas and
    Wyandots--Johnson's Island--Lecture in Union Hall--Captain
    Culver--_Sixty-fourth Day_--Ride to Castalia--A Remarkable Spring--
    _Sixty-fifth Day_--Reach Fremont--Home of President Hayes--_Sixty-sixth
    Day_--Reach Elmore, Ohio--Comparison of Hotels             221

  CHAPTER XV.

  FIVE DAYS AT TOLEDO.

  Ride from Elmore--Lecture at Lyceum Hall--Forsyth Post, G. A.
    R.--Doctor J. T. Woods--Concerning General Custer--Pioneer
    History--Battle of Fallen Timbers--Mad Anthony Wayne--
    Miami and Wabash Indians--The Toledo War--Unpleasant Complications--
    Governor Lucas--Strategy of General Vanfleet--
    Milbourn Wagon Works--Visited by a Detroit Friend          231

  CHAPTER XVI.

  TOLEDO TO DETROIT.

  _Seventy-second Day_--Leave Toledo--Change of Route--Ride to Erie,
    Michigan--_Paul_ Shows His Mettle--_Seventy-third Day_--Sunday
    --Go to Church--Rev. E. P. Willard--Solicitude of Friends--
    _Seventy-fourth Day_--Ride to Monroe--Greeted with Music--Hail
    Columbia--Star-Spangled Banner--Home of Custer--Meet Custer
    Family--Custer Monument Association--Received at City Hall--Great
    Enthusiasm--River Rasin--Indian Massacre--General Winchester--
    Battle of the Thames--Death of Tecumseh--Monroe
    _Monitor_--_Seventy-seventh Day_--Lecture at City Hall--Personal
    Recollections of Custer--Incidents of His School Life--_Seventy-eighth
    Day_--Leave Monroe--Huron River--Traces of the Mound
    Builders--Rockwood--_Seventy-ninth Day_--Along the Detroit
    River--Wyandotte--Ecorse--_Eightieth Day_--Letter from Judge
    Wing--Indorsement of Custer Monument Association           243

  CHAPTER XVII.

  FOUR DAYS AT DETROIT.

  Leave Ecorse--Met at Fort Wayne--Sad News--Reach Detroit--
    Met by General Throop and Others--at Russell House--Lecture at
    St. Andrew's Hall--General Trowbridge--Meet Captain Hampton
    --Army and Prison Reminiscences--Pioneer History of Detroit--
    La Motte Cadillac--Miamies and Pottawattomies--Fort Ponchartrain--
    Plot of Pontiac--Major Gladwyn--Fort Shelby--War of
    1812--General Brock and Tecumseh Advance on Detroit--Surrender
    of General Hull--British Compelled to Evacuate             265

  CHAPTER XVIII.

  DETROIT TO CHICAGO.

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