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INTRODUCTORY.

Boyhood Longings--Confronted by Obstacles--Trapping Along the Oswegatchie--Enter Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary--Appointed to State Normal College--Straitened Circumstances--Teach School in Rensselaer County--War of the Rebellion--Enlist in a Cavalry Regiment--Taken Prisoner--Fourteen Months in Southern Prisons--Escape from Columbia--Recaptured--Escape from Sylvania, Georgia--Re-enter the Army--Close of the War--Publish "Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape" and Other Books--Decide to Cross the Continent--Preparation for Journey--Ocean to Ocean on Horseback 25

Early History and Development--Situation of the Metropolis of New England--Boston Harbor--The Cradle of Liberty--Old South Church--Migrations of the Post Office--Patriots of the Revolution--The Boston Tea Party--Bunker Hill Monument--Visit of Lafayette--The Public Library--House where Franklin was Born--The Back Bay--Public Gardens--Streets of Boston--Soldiers' Monument--The Old Elm--Commonwealth Avenue--State Capitol--Tremont Temple--Edward Everett--Wendell Phillips--William Loyd Garrison--Phillips Brooks--Harvard University--Wellesley College--Holmes, Parkman--Prescott, Lowell, Longfellow--Boston's Claims to Greatness 32

Subject of Lecture--Objects Contemplated--Grand Army of the Republic--Introduction by Captain Theodore L. Kelly--Reference to Army and Prison Experiences--Newspaper Comment--Proceeds of Lecture Given to Posts 7 and 15--Letter to Adjutant-General of Department 70

Nassau to Albany--Among Old Friends in Rensselaer County--Thoughts of Rip Van Winkle--Crossing the Hudson--Albany as Seen from the River--Schoolday Associations--Early History--Settled by the Dutch--Henry Hudson--Killian Van Rensselaer--Fort Orange--Peter Schuyler and Robert Livingstone--Lecture at Tweddle Hall--Call at the Capitol--Meet Army Comrades. 110

Walks and Talks with the People--Early History--Lake Onondaga-- Father Le Moyne--Discovery of Salt Springs--Major Danforth--Joshua Forman--James Geddes--The Erie Canal--Visit of La Fayette--Syracuse University--Lecture at Shakespeare Hall. 132

SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER.

FOUR DAYS AT ROCHESTER.

Rainstorm Anticipated--Friends of the Horse--Seven-Sealed Wonder-- Newspaper Controversy--Lecture at Corinthian Hall--Colonel J. A. Reynolds--Pioneer History--Colonel Nathaniel Rochester--William Fitzhugh--Charles Carroll--Rapid Growth of City--Sam Patch--Genesee Falls--The Erie Canal--Mount Hope--Lake Ontario--Fruit Nurseries 147

ROCHESTER TO BUFFALO.

THREE DAYS AT BUFFALO.

"Queen City" of the Lakes--Arrival at the Tift House--Lecture at St. James Hall--Major Farquhar--Aboriginal History--The Eries--Iroquois--"Cats"--La Hontan--Lake Erie--Black Rock--War of 1812--The Erie Canal--Buffalo River--Grosvenor Library--Historical Society--Red Jacket--Forest Lawn--Predictions for the Future 171

BUFFALO TO CLEVELAND.

FIVE DAYS AT CLEVELAND.

An Early Start--School Girls--"Do you Like Apples, Mister?"--Mentor--Home of Garfield--Dismount at Euclid--Rumors of the Custer Massacre--Reach the "Forest City"--Met by Comrades of the G. A. R.--Lecture at Garrett Hall--Lake Erie--Cuyahoga River--Early History--Moses Cleveland--Connecticut Land Company--Job Stiles--The Ohio Canal--God of Lake Erie--"Ohio City"--West Side Boat Building--"The Pilot"--Levi Johnson-Visit of Lorenzo Dow--Monument Square--Commodore Perry--Public Buildings--Euclid Avenue--"The Flats"--Standard Oil Company 206

CLEVELAND TO TOLEDO.

FIVE DAYS AT TOLEDO.

Ride from Elmore--Lecture at Lyceum Hall--Forsyth Post, G. A. R.--Doctor J. T. Woods--Concerning General Custer--Pioneer History--Battle of Fallen Timbers--Mad Anthony Wayne-- Miami and Wabash Indians--The Toledo War--Unpleasant Complications-- Governor Lucas--Strategy of General Vanfleet-- Milbourn Wagon Works--Visited by a Detroit Friend 231

TOLEDO TO DETROIT.

FOUR DAYS AT DETROIT.

Leave Ecorse--Met at Fort Wayne--Sad News--Reach Detroit-- Met by General Throop and Others--at Russell House--Lecture at St. Andrew's Hall--General Trowbridge--Meet Captain Hampton --Army and Prison Reminiscences--Pioneer History of Detroit-- La Motte Cadillac--Miamies and Pottawattomies--Fort Ponchartrain-- Plot of Pontiac--Major Gladwyn--Fort Shelby--War of 1812--General Brock and Tecumseh Advance on Detroit--Surrender of General Hull--British Compelled to Evacuate 265

DETROIT TO CHICAGO.

THREE DAYS AT CHICAGO.

CHICAGO TO DAVENPORT.

FOUR DAYS AT DAVENPORT.

Cross the Mississippi--Lecture at Moore's Hall--Colonel Russell--General Sanders--Early History of the City--Colonel George Davenport--Antoine Le Claire--Griswold College--Rock Island--Fort Armstrong--Rock Island Arsenal--General Rodman--Colonel Flagler--Rock Island City--Sac and Fox Indians--Black Hawk War--Jefferson Davis--Abraham Lincoln--Defeat of Black Hawk--Rock River--Indian Legends 372

DAVENPORT TO DES MOINES.

DES MOINES TO OMAHA.

A HALT AT OMAHA.

The Metropolis of Nebraska--First Impressions--Peculiarity of the Streets--Hanscom Park--Poor House Farm--Prospect Cemetery--Douglas County Fair Grounds--Omaha Driving Park--Fort Omaha--Creighton College--Father Marquette--The Mormons--"Winter Quarters"--Lone Tree Ferry--Nebraska Ferry Company--Old State House--First Territorial Legislature--Governor Cummings--Omaha in the Civil War--Rapid Development of the "Gate City" 409

OMAHA TO CHEYENNE.

CAPTURED BY INDIANS.

Leave Cheyenne--Arrange to Journey with Herders--Additional Notes on Territory--Yellowstone National Park--Sherman--Skull Rocks--Laramie Plains--Encounter Indians--Friendly Signals--Surrounded by Arrapahoes--One Indian Killed--Taken Prisoners--Carried toward Deadwood--Indians Propose to Kill their Captives--Herder Tortured at the Stake--Move toward Black Hills--Escape from Guards--Pursued by the Arrapahoes--Take Refuge in a Gulch--Reach a Cattle Ranch--Secure a Mustang and Continue Journey 435

AMONG THE MORMONS.

Ride Across Utah--Chief Occupation of the People--Description of Territory--Great Salt Lake--Mormon Settlements--Brigham Young--Peculiar Views of the Latter Day Saints--"Celestial Marriages"--Joseph Smith, the Founder of Mormonism--The Book of Mormon--City of Ogden--Pioneer History--Peter Skeen Ogden--Weber and Ogden Rivers--Heber C. Kimball--Echo Canyon--Enterprise of the Mormons--Rapid Development of the Territory 446

OVER THE SIERRAS.

The Word Sierra--At Kelton, Utah--Ride to Terrace--Wells, Nevada--The Sierra Nevada--Lake Tahoe--Silver Mines--The Comstock Lode--Stock Raising--Camp Halleck--Humboldt River--Mineral Springs--Reach Palisade--Reese River Mountain--Golconda--Winnemucca-- Lovelocks--Wadsworth--Cross Truckee River--In California 458

ALONG THE SACRAMENTO.

Colfax--Auburn--Summit--Reach Sacramento--California Boundaries--Pacific Ocean--Coast Range Mountains--The Sacramento Valley--Inhabitants of California--John A. Sutter--Sutter's Fort--A Saw-mill--James Wilson Marshall--Discovery of Gold--"Boys, I believe I have found a Gold Mine"--The Secret Out--First Days of Sacramento--A "City of Tents"-- Capital of California 465

SAN FRANCISCO AND END OF JOURNEY.

Metropolis of the Pacific Coast--Largest Gold Fields in the World--The Jesuits--Captain Sutter--Argonauts of "49"--Great Excitement--Discovery of Upper California--Sir Francis Drake--John P. Lease--The Founding of San Francisco--The "Golden Age"--Story of Kit Carson--The Golden Gate--San Francisco Deserted--The Cholera Plague--California Admitted to the Union--Crandall's Stage--Wonderful Development of San Francisco--United States Mint--Handsome Buildings--Trade with China, Japan, India and Australia--Go Out to the Cliff House--Ride into the Pacific--End of Journey 476

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Views in Boston 33

Scenes in Boston 39

Boston and Environs 49

Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 57

Leaving the Revere House, Boston 71

Riding Through Cambridge 77

View in Worcester, Mass. 81

A New England Paper Mill 85

Old Toll-Bridge at Springfield 91

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