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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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llection of the splendid scenesthrough which I have passed, the people whom I havemet, the cities I have visited, will be a lifelongsatisfaction, but the opportunity to help perpetuatethe memory of fellow-soldiers and to do others honorwhile they yet live, will be the most gratifying outcomeof my journey. Knowing this, the following letterfrom Chaplain Earnshaw holds an important placeamong the papers of my correspondents. National Soldiers Home,Dayton, Ohio, July 27, 1876.Captain Willard Glazier, My dear Comrade : We have received, through Major E. M.Hessler, your generous donation to aid in erecting the SoldiersMonument at the Home. You have the hearty thanks of threethousand disabled veterans now on our rolls ; and a cordial invitationto visit us whenever it is your pleasure to do so. Again, we thankyou. Very respectfully, William Earnshaw,President Historical and Monumental Society. On leaving the city several gentlemen gave me thepleasure of their company for some distance, among
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CLEVELAND TO TOLEDO. 247 them Alexander Wilsey, who before the war had beena scholar of mine back in Schodack, New York. Meeting him was only one of many similar ex-periences, for here and there along my route I foundold acquaintances, whose faces I had never expected tosee again. After a ride of six hours, I rode into Black Riverand found it quite an enterprising village, but hardlysuggesting its old position as the principal port in thecounty. Siitu-scconb Slag. Huron House,Huron, Ohio, July Twelfth. Left the aspiring village of Black River or Lor-raine, as the inhabitants are disposed to call it, atnine oclock, stopping at the Lake House, Vermillion,for dinner. The scenery is very attractive along theLake Shore Road between Black River and Huron,and I followed it all day and for two or three hoursafter nightfall, covering a distance of twenty miles.My sense of the beautiful was somewhat dimmed,however, by the cloud of mosquitoes which beset mypath, and which were liardly persuaded

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