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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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the north of the park stand two of the hand-somest of Pittsfields eleven churches. The citys manufactories are large and thrifty, butthey, and the operatives who manipulate them, aretucked away in a corner, so to speak, where they maynot offend the eyes of the opulent inhabitants. Onlyin the riotous jostle of Saturday night in the store isone brouu-ht face to face with the fact that beauty,leisure and wealth do not hold a monopoly of thesweet Berkshire air. For everything appears solovely. The streets are very wide, great statelyavenues, where beautiful strips of the finest lawn bor-der each edge of the sidewalk. Society is the choicest,for the summer residences of New Yorks four hun-dred intermingle with the magnificent old mansionsowned by the staunchest of Massachusetts old blue-blooded sons and daughters. Cropping out throughthe elegance of this little city are some queer oldYankee traits. Lawlessness there is none. No police-men guard the park, with its ideal lawns, but a polite
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I BOSTON TO ALBANY. 117 notice infornis passers-by tliat tins hciiin^ no tlioroiij^li-fare, trespass!iit^ will not he tolerated, and there isnone. When the concerts are in fnll blast, peojjlegather in the walks and drives only. Whole rows oflittle street Arabs may be seen on these occasions,drawn up with their little l)are toes touehin*)^ the veryedge of the precious grass. The open music house isalways left full of cliairs, which no one steals, nay,which no one uses. The entrance to the Court House isfilled with blooming ))lants. No child^ no dog even,is ill-bred enough to break one. But the peculiarities of the people, the beauty ofthe dwellinij;;s, the magnificence of the equipages, thetide of fashionable life which pours in, summer andfall, all, aiAj is forgotten as, from some point of van-tage, the spectator takes in the beauty surroundinghim. ^On the west sweep the Taconics, in thatmajestic curve, whose grace travelers, familiar with themountain scenery of both hemisplieres, pro

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