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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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h of a train at a point where it was impossibleto leave the turnpike. We were trotting along quietlyand had just turned a bend in the road when the quickear of .the horse caught the distant rumbling ofwheels. In an instant he was on the alert, and whenthe swift express came round the curve, made a suddenspring to the right, leaped a rail-fence, and landed ina bog where the mud was two or three feet deep. Imanaged to keep the saddle, but could not avoid themire iu which we had haplessly fallen. (!ru)i:uti)-sct)eut!) Saw. Jordan House, Jordan, New York, June Fourth. By an hours close application to my bespatteredgarments, after reaching the Camillus House, I foundthat I was ready to turn in for the night. Startedforward in the morning, the ride on this perfect Juneday proving false the old saying that Jordan is ahard road to travel. This village was reached aboutnoon and I was quite prepared for the generous mealwhich was placed before me. When the gnawings of hunger had been appeased I
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SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER. 159 gave myself up to the agreeable quiet of Sundayafternoon. There was ample encouragement for such a coursein this cosy little retreat at the head of I^ake Skancatelcs,for there was not a sound from store or mill while thepeople were taking their Sabbath rest. This brief halt in the march forward was veryagreeable, for it gave me an opportunity to try myown powers of locomotion, so little used since leavingBoston. It was a real luxury to stroll al)out the quietlanes, and scan the outlying fields from the standpointof a modest pedestrian. In the course of my ramblesI came across some photographers from Auburn whohad been taking views of the scenery about here.Some of their pictures were excellent. Stucutg-eigl)tl) IDan. Montezuma Hotel, Montezuma, New York, June Fifth. The Auburn photographers whom I saw yesterdaymet me as I was riding out of Jordan, and proposedphotographing myself and Paul. Some time waspassed and several ruses resorted to in attempting toqui

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