L^ONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



Boyhood Longings— Confronted by Obstacles — Trapping Along the 

 Oswegatchie — Enter Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary — Appointed 

 to State Normal College — Straitened Circumstances — Teach SchooJ 

 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 Syl- 

 vania, Georgia— Re-enter the Array— 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 - , ^1 



CHAPTER 11. 



BOSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS. 



Early History and Development — Situation of the Metropolis 

 of New England — Boston Harbor — The Cradle of Liberty- 

 Old South Church — Migrations of the Post OflSce — Patriots of 

 the Revolution — The Boston Tea Party — Bunker Hill Monument — 

 Visit of Lafayette — The Public Library — House where Frankliu 

 was Born — The Back Bay — Public Gardens — Streets of Boston- 

 Soldiers* Monument — The Okl Elm — Commonwealth Avenue^ 

 State Capitol — Tremont Tera})le — Edward Everett — Wendell 

 Phillips — William Loyd Garrison — Phillips Brooks — Harvard 

 University — Wellesley College — Holmes, Parkmau — Prescott, 

 Lowell, Longfellow — Boston's Claims to Greatness . • ,28 



CHAPTER HI. 



LECTURE AT TREMONT TEMPLE. 

 Sabject of Lecture — Objects Contemplated — Grand' Army ol ih« 



