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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lock,still following the Boston and AlbanyTurnpike, and soon reached the OldBarringer Homestead. It was withthis family that I spent my first nightin Rensselaer County sixteen years be-fore, when a lad of seventeen, I waslooking for a school commissioner anda school to teach. Brock ways wasanother well-known landmark which I could notpass without stopping, for it was here that I boardedthe first week after opening my school at SchodackCentre in the autumn of 1859. At the school, too,I dismounted, and found that the teacher was one ofmy old scholars. The Lewis family, at the hotel justbeyond, were waiting my approach with wide-opendoor; for Oscar Lewis had gone to Albany and hadsaid before he left: Keep a sharp lookout for CaptainGlazier, as he will surely pass this way. It was verypleasant to be met so cordially, although the sight ofwell-known faces and landmarks brought back the pastand made me feel like another Rip Van Winkle.In crossing the river between Greenbush and Albany,(120)
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STATE STBEET AND CAPITOL, ALBANY, NliW YCUK. FOUR DAYS AT ALBANY. 123 P<nil siiQincd clisinclined to stay on boiird, so the barsliad to be put up and every precaution taken. It mayliave been that the shades of tlio ferrymen who hadrun the little craft for tlie hist two hundred years cameback to vex us. Perhaps the particular ghost of Ilen-drick Albertsen, who, two hundred and eight yearsairo barirained witli Killian Van Rensselaer for theprivilege of running his boat; but whatever the causeof the disturbance we reached terra firma without acci-dent, and were soon in the familiar streets of the oldDutch town ; the days journey agreeably ended withour trip across the Hudson by the oldest ferry in theUnited States. From the river the view of Albany is picturesquein the extreme, where the eye catches the first glimj)seof the city, rising from the waters edge, and surmountedthen by its brown-domed Capitol. It was a sight thathad always had a singular charm for me, for many ofthe pleasan

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