OCEAN TO OCEAN ON HORSEBACK. From Boston to San Francisco.--An unparalleled ride.--Object of the journey.--Novel lecture tour.--Captain Frank M. Clark.--"Echoes from the Revolution."--Lecture at Tremont Temple.--Captain Theodore L. Kelly.--A success.--Proceeds of lecture.--Edward F. Rollins.--Extracts from first lecture.--Press notices 364 CHAPTER XXXII. BOSTON TO CHICAGO. In the saddle.--Bunker Hill.--Arrives in Albany.--Reminiscences.-- The Soldiers' Home.--Contributions for erecting Soldiers' Home.--Reception at Rochester.--Buffalo.--Dunkirk.--Swanville.-- Cleveland.--Massacre of General Custer.--Monroe.--Lectures for Custer Monument.--Father of General Custer.--Detroit.-- Kalamazoo.--An adventure.--Gives "Paul Revere" a rest.--Decatur.-- Niles.--Michigan City.--Chicago 376 CHAPTER XXXIII. CHICAGO TO OMAHA. Returns to Michigan City.--Joliet.--Thomas Babcock.--Herbert Glazier.--Ottawa.--La Salle.--Colonel Stevens.--Press Notice.--Taken for a highwayman.--Milan.--Davenport.--Press Notice.--Iowa City.--Des Moines.--Press Notice.--Attacked by prairie wolves.--Council Bluffs.--Omaha 401 CHAPTER XXXIV. CAPTAIN GLAZIER CAPTURED BY INDIANS. Captain Glazier as a horseman.--Cheyenne.--Two herders.--Captured by Indians.--Torture and death of a herder.--Escape.--Ogden.-- Letter to Major Hessler.--Kelton.--Terrace.--Wells.--Halleck.-- Elko.--Palisade.--Argenta.--Battle Mountain.--Golconda.--Humboldt.-- "The majesty of the law."--Lovelock's.--White Plains.--Desert.-- Wadsworth.--Truckee.--Summit.--Sacramento.--Brighton.-- Stockton.--SAN FRANCISCO 410 CHAPTER XXXV. RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA. Returns to the East by the "Iron Horse."--Boston _Transcript_ on the journey on horseback.--Resumes literary work.--"Peculiarities of American Cities."--Preface to book.--A domestic incident.--A worthy son.--Claims of parents.--Purchases the Old Homestead, and presents it to his father and mother.--Letter to his parents.--The end 431 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.