: Gems of Reminiscence Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Lambert George C George Cannon Compiler - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Missions Latter Day Sain

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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

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