Chapter XVIII: Detroit to Chicago

_Eighty-fifth Day_--Leave Detroit Reluctantly--_Paul_ in Good Spirits
--Reach Inkster--_Eighty-sixth Day_--Lowering Clouds--Take
Shelter under Trees and in a Woodshed--Meet War Veterans--
Ypsilanti--_Eighty-seventh Day_--Lecture at Union Hall--Incidents
of the Late War--_Eighty-eighth Day_--An Early Start--Ann Arbor
--Michigan University--Dinner at Dexter--_Eighty-ninth Day_--Dinner
at Grass Lake--Reach Jackson--_Ninetieth Day_--Comment
of Jackson _Citizen_--Coal Fields--Grand River--_Ninety-first
Day_--A Circus in Town--Parma--_Ninety-second
Day_--"Wolverines"--_Ninety-third Day_--Ride to Battle Creek--Lecture
at Stuart's Hall--_Ninety-fourth Day_--Go to Church--Goguac Lake--
_Ninety-fifth Day_--Arrive at Kalamazoo--Sketch of the "Big Village"--
_Ninety-sixth Day_--Return to Albion and Lecture in Opera House--
_Ninety-seventh Day_--Lecture at Wayne Hall, Marshall--_Ninety-eighth
Day_--Calhoun County--_Ninety-ninth Day_--Letter to Custer
Monument Association--_One Hundredth Day_--Colonel Curtenius--_One
Hundred and First Day_--Paw Paw--_One Hundred and
Second Day_--South Bend, Indiana--Hon. Schuyler Colfax--_One
Hundred and Third Day_--Grand Rapids--Speak in Luce's Hall--_One
Hundred and Fourth Day_--Return to Decatur--_One Hundred
and Fifth Day_--Again in Paw Paw--_One Hundred and
Sixth Day_--Lecture at Niles--_One Hundred and Seventh_ Day--Go
to La Porte by Rail--_One Hundred and Eighth Day_--Return
to Michigan City--_One Hundred and Ninth Day_--Go Back to
Decatur, Michigan--_One Hundred and Tenth_ to _One Hundred
and Twenty-second Day_--Dowagiac--Buchanan--Rolling
Prairie 279

CHAPTER XIX.

THREE DAYS AT CHICAGO.

Register at the Grand Pacific Hotel--Lecture at Farwell Hall--Visit
McVicker's Theatre--See John T. Raymond in "Mulberry
Sellers"--The Chicago Exposition--Site of City--Origin of Name
--Father Marquette--First Dwelling--Death of Marquette--Lake
Michigan--Fort Dearborn--First Settlement Destroyed by Indians
--Chicago as a Commercial City--The Great Fire--An Unparalleled
Conflagration--Rises from her Ashes--Financial Reorganization--Greater
than Before--Schools and Colleges--Historical
Society--The Palmer House--Spirit of the People--_One Hundred
and Twenty-sixth Day_--Again at Michigan City--Attend a
Political Meeting--Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees--"Blue Jeans"
Williams--_One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Day_--Leave Michigan
City--Hobart--"Hoosierdum"--_One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
Day_--Weather Much Cooler 333

CHAPTER XX.

CHICAGO TO DAVENPORT.

_One Hundred and Thirtieth Day_--Followed by Prairie Wolves--Reach
Joliet, Illinois--Lecture at Werner Hall--_One Hundred
and Thirty-first Day_--Ride on Tow Path of Michigan Canal--Morris--_One
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_--Visit Peru--_One Hundred
and Thirty-sixth Day_--Mistaken for a Highwayman--_One Hundred
and Thirty-seventh Day_--Fine Stock Farms--Wyanet--_One
Hundred and Thirty-eighth Day_--Annawan--Commendatory
Letter--_One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Day_--A Woman Farmer--_One
Hundred and Fortieth Day_--Reach Milan, Illinois 354

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--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

CHAPTER XXII.

DAVENPORT TO DES MOINES.

_One Hundred and Forty-fifth Day_--Leave Davenport--Stop over
Night at Farm House--_One Hundred and Forty-sixth Day_--Reach
Moscow, Iowa--Rolling Prairies--_One Hundred and Forty-seventh
Day_--Weather Cold and Stormy--Iowa City--_One Hundred and Forty-eighth
Day_--Description of City--_One Hundred and Forty-ninth
Day_--Lectured at Ham's Hall--Hon. G. B. Edmunds--_One
Hundred and Fiftieth Day_--Reach Tiffin--Guests of the Tiffin
House--_One Hundred and Fifty-first Day_--Marengo--_One Hundred
and Fifty-second Day_--Halt for the Night at Brooklyn--_One
Hundred 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 386

CHAPTER XXIII.

DES MOINES TO OMAHA.

_One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Day_--Leave Des Moines with Pleasant
Reflections--Reach Adel--Dallas County--Raccoon River--_One
Hundred and Fifty-eighth Day_--Ride through Redfield--Reach
Dale City--Talk Politics with Farmers--_One Hundred and
Fifty-ninth Day_--A Night with Coyotes--Re-enforced by a Friendly
Dog--_One Hundred and Sixtieth Day_--Cold Winds from the
Northwest--All Day on the Prairies--_One Hundred and Sixty-first
Day_--Halt at Avoca--_One Hundred and Sixty-second Day_--Riding
in the Rain--Reach Neola--_One Hundred and Sixty-third
Day_--Roads in Bad Condition--Ride through Council Bluffs--Arrive
at Omaha 401

CHAPTER XXIV.

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

CHAPTER XXV.

OMAHA TO CHEYENNE.

Leave _Paul_ in Omaha--Purchase a Mustang--Use Mexican Saddle--Over
the Great Plains--Surface of Nebraska--Extensive Beds of
Peat--Salt Basins--The Platte River--High Winds--Dry Climate--Fertile
Soil--Lincoln--Nebraska City--Fremont--Grand Island--Plum
Creek--McPherson--Sheep Raising--Elk Horn River--In
Wyoming Territory--Reach Cheyenne--Description of Wyoming
"Magic City"--Vigilance Committee--Rocky Mountains--Laramie
Plains--Union Pacific Railroad 420

CHAPTER XXVI.

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

CHAPTER XXVII.

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

CHAPTER XXVIII.

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

CHAPTER XXIX.

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