CONTENTS, XV 



CHAPTER XX. 



CHICAGO TO DAVENPORT. 



One Hundred and Thirtieth i^ay— Followed by Prairie Wolves- 

 Reach Joliet, Illinois— Lecture at Werner Hall— On« Hundred 

 and Thirty-first Day—K\diQ on Tow Path of Michigan Canal— 

 Morris— 0?ie Hundred and Thirty-second Day— Corn and Hogs 

 —Arrive at Ottawa — One Hundred and Thirty-third Day — Reach 

 La Salle— One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Day— Colonel Stephens 

 ^One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Day— Yisit Peru— One Hundred 

 and Thirty-sixth Da?/— Mistaken for a Highwayman- One Hun- 

 dred and Thirty-seventh Day—Yxne Stock Farms— Wyanet— One 

 Hundred and Thirty-eighth Pa?/ — Annawau — Commendatory 

 Letter— One Hundred and Thirty -ninth Day— A Woman Farmer- 

 One Hundred and Fortieth Day—B,esich Milan, Illinois , • 376 



CHAPTER XXI. 



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 — Col- 

 onel Flagler — Rock Island City— Sac and Fox Indians — Black 

 Hawk War— JeflFerson Davis — Abraham Lincoln— Defeat of Black 

 Hawk — Rock River — Indian Legends . . , • • 402 



CHAPTER XXII. 



DAVENPORT TO DES MOINES. 



One Hundred and Forty-fifth Day—Le&ve Davenport— Stop over 

 Night at Farm House— One Hundred and Forty-sixth Da?/— Reach 

 Moscow, Iowa— Rolling Prairies — One Hundred and Forty-seventh 

 Day— Weather Cold and Stormy— Iowa City— One Hundred and- 

 Forty-eighth Da?/— Description of City— One Hundred and Forty 

 ninth Da?/— Lectured at Ham's Hall— Hon. G. B. Edmunds— On<? 

 Hundred and Fiftieth Day— Reach Tiffin— <}uests of the Tiffin 

 House— One Hundred and Fifty -first Day— Marengo — One Hun* 

 dred and Fifty-second Day— Halt for the Night at Brooklyn— On* 

 Hwndred and Fifty third Day— Ride to Kellogg— Stop at a School 

 House — Talk with Boys — One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Day^ 

 Reach Colfax — One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Day — Arrive at Des 

 Moines — Capital of Iowa — Description of City — Professor Bowen 

 —Meet an Army Comrade .»••-••• 414 



