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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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for agreeable impressions. It hadbeen a typical summer day, with blue sky, a slightbreeze and the mercury at 70° ; in short, just suchweather as I had encountered in this section of Michi-gan throughout the month of August, and as eveningapproached, I*was prepared to enjoy to the utmostthe pleasure which my new acquaintance had provided. On the outskirts of the town one gets a view ofgently rolling country under a splendid state of culti-vation, the yellow of the grain fields predominating,and dotted here and there with farmhouses. Darkoutlines against the horizon suggested the forests ofoak, ash, maple, birch and elm, which stretch oversuch large tracts of Van Buren County, and whichhave made a little paradise for lumbermen. Wheat,maize and hay appeared to be flourishing; but Ibelieve that agricultural products do their best in therich bottom-lands bordering the rivers. I havedwelt so enthusiastically upon this fertile country thatto say more would seem extravagant, so I will bring
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DETROIT TO CHICAGO. 347 my note, the chronicle of a most dell«rlitfiil day, to aclose. ©ue CjuuLirci^ auD ®l)irtccntl) Dan. JJuncovihe House, Decatur, Michigan, September First. Received and answered a large mail after breakfast,and in the afternoon took a walk tln-ough the vilhige.One is, of course, reminded of the gallant Conunodorewhose name, once among the greatest in America, nowhonors this modest Western town, and whose deeds,once npon every lip in the young republic, are well-nigh forgotten. The question even suggests itself asto how many of those who live here, where his nameis perpetuated, are familiar with his life and character. His capture of the frigate Philadelphia, which hadbeen seized and held in the harbor of Tripoli in1801, during the pachas seizure of our merchantmen,was said by Admiral Nelson to be the most daringact of the age, and his di()lomacy at Algiers andTunis and Tripoli, where in 1812 his demands wereacceded to, received the applause of all Christendom,

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