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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

_Eighty-fifth Day_--Leave Detroit Reluctantly--_Paul_ in Good Spirits
    --Reach Inkster--_Eighty-sixth Day_--Lowering Clouds--Take
    Shelter under Trees and in a Woodshed--Meet War Veterans--
    Ypsilanti--_Eighty-seventh Day_--Lecture at Union Hall--Incidents
    of the Late War--_Eighty-eighth Day_--An Early Start--Ann Arbor
    --Michigan University--Dinner at Dexter--_Eighty-ninth Day_--Dinner
    at Grass Lake--Reach Jackson--_Ninetieth Day_--Comment
    of Jackson _Citizen_--Coal Fields--Grand River--_Ninety-first
    Day_--A Circus in Town--Parma--_Ninety-second
    Day_--"Wolverines"--_Ninety-third Day_--Ride to Battle Creek--Lecture
    at Stuart's Hall--_Ninety-fourth Day_--Go to Church--Goguac Lake--
    _Ninety-fifth Day_--Arrive at Kalamazoo--Sketch of the "Big Village"--
    _Ninety-sixth Day_--Return to Albion and Lecture in Opera House--
    _Ninety-seventh Day_--Lecture at Wayne Hall, Marshall--_Ninety-eighth
    Day_--Calhoun County--_Ninety-ninth Day_--Letter to Custer
    Monument Association--_One Hundredth Day_--Colonel Curtenius--_One
    Hundred and First Day_--Paw Paw--_One Hundred and
    Second Day_--South Bend, Indiana--Hon. Schuyler Colfax--_One
    Hundred and Third Day_--Grand Rapids--Speak in Luce's Hall--_One
    Hundred and Fourth Day_--Return to Decatur--_One Hundred
    and Fifth Day_--Again in Paw Paw--_One Hundred and
    Sixth Day_--Lecture at Niles--_One Hundred and Seventh_ Day--Go
    to La Porte by Rail--_One Hundred and Eighth Day_--Return
    to Michigan City--_One Hundred and Ninth Day_--Go Back to
    Decatur, Michigan--_One Hundred and Tenth_ to _One Hundred
    and Twenty-second Day_--Dowagiac--Buchanan--Rolling
    Prairie                                                    279

  CHAPTER XIX.

  THREE DAYS AT CHICAGO.

  Register at the Grand Pacific Hotel--Lecture at Farwell Hall--Visit
    McVicker's Theatre--See John T. Raymond in "Mulberry
    Sellers"--The Chicago Exposition--Site of City--Origin of Name
    --Father Marquette--First Dwelling--Death of Marquette--Lake
    Michigan--Fort Dearborn--First Settlement Destroyed by Indians
    --Chicago as a Commercial City--The Great Fire--An Unparalleled
    Conflagration--Rises from her Ashes--Financial Reorganization--Greater
    than Before--Schools and Colleges--Historical
    Society--The Palmer House--Spirit of the People--_One Hundred
    and Twenty-sixth Day_--Again at Michigan City--Attend a
    Political Meeting--Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees--"Blue Jeans"
    Williams--_One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Day_--Leave Michigan
    City--Hobart--"Hoosierdum"--_One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
    Day_--Weather Much Cooler                                  333

  CHAPTER XX.

  CHICAGO TO DAVENPORT.

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