DETROIT TO CHICAGO. 30.) 



haunts in their native wilds, made short pilgrimages 

 " to town " in order to look at one whom they fancied 

 might hold a proud place for having crossed the 

 continent in so many days, hours and seconds. My 

 horse even was looked upon with awe, as ^' the charger 

 upon which General Washington rode during the war 

 of the Revolution ! ^^ But this anachronism belongs 

 to New York. 



Leaving Grass Lake late in the afternoon, it was 

 necessary to make better time in order to cover the 

 remainder of the twenty three miles lying between 

 Chelsea and Jackson. The pace quickened. I came 

 into the latter city at six o'clock, and rode directly to 

 the hotel. 



Jfinetletl) Clap. 



Hurd House, 

 Jackson, Michigan, 



August Ninth. 



I clipped the following notice from the Citizen of 

 this date, as a memento of my stay at Jackson. It 

 chronicled the fact that : 



"Captain Willard Glazier lectured last evening in the interest of 

 the Custer Monument Fund. His lecture was a good historical 

 review delivered with graceful rlietoric and at times real eloquence. 

 The Captain is still in tlie city giving his Jiorse a rest; a noble 

 Kentucky Black Hawk, whom he has ridden all the way from 

 Boston, and whom he expects to carry him to San Francisco. He 

 starts to-morrow morning for Battle Creek, where he lectures ou 

 Saturday evening." 



My advance agent, Babcock, went on to Battle Creek 

 in the morning, where arrangements w^ere made with 

 local committees for my lecture on the twelfth. After 

 he had gone I made a leisurely inspection of the 



