File: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; (14584471937).jpg

Identifier: oceantooceanonho01glaz (find matches)
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
Subjects:
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
chat into avisit, finding the Captain a cordial comrade. According to previous agreement I lectured in theevening at Wayne Hall, Marshall, having an intro-duction by Colonel Charles W. Dickie. My horse was now in Michigan City, being treatedfor the sore on his back by an old comrade, who sincethe war had attained quite a reputation as a veterinarysurgeon. The delay was somewhat annoying as Ianticipated trouble in crossing the Rockies, if I didnot reach them before the season was too far advanced ;but there was a possibility of disabling the animal ifhis affliction were neglected, and my sympathies werewith him. As the delay could not be avoided Iavailed myself of the ^^Iron Horse and on it madebrief tours to the neighboring towns. At this time it was very easy to agree with the theoryof the fatalist that whatever is, is right, for by anaccident I was enabled to meet more agreeable people,to enjoy their hospitality, and to see more, which wasmy chief purpose in crossing the continent.
Text Appearing After Image:
DETROIT TO CIIICAaO. ;>23 JTinetn-ciglitl) Dan. 72 West Main Street, Battlk Crkkk, Michigan, August Seventeenth. Soon after breakfast I left Marshall for Battle Creekon a freight train, as there were no passenger coachesover the road until the afternoon. This mode oftravel, if not the most luxurious, was at least novel,and we made very good time. Between the twoplaces*the face of the country hardly changed in ap-pearance. There were the same fields of wheat andcorn, and at Battle Creek evidently as much businessin the flour mills as at Marshall. The creek, uniting here with the Kalamazoo, aftera serpentine course of forty miles, supplies the water-power and giv^es the necessary impetus to trade. I have heard that the tributary won its bellicosename through a little difficulty between the first sur-veyors of public land who came to mark this sectionand some Indians. The quarrel ended seriously, and,as the tradition goes, two of the*Indians were killed. It may have been that the latt

Note About Images