saintly soldiers, peaceful pioneers and
devastating armies, as the Mississippi.... For half a century Lake
Itasca has been accepted as the fountain-head of the Great River,
but Captain Glazier having had reasons for doubting the correctness
of that theory, undertook, in 1881, to verify or disprove it, and
the book treats of his adventures on that mission and his
subsequent voyage by canoe down its entire length from its source
to its mouth, a distance of three thousand one hundred and
eighty-four miles.... The voyage, embracing as it does over
seventeen degrees of latitude, furnishes material for the
description of strongly contrasted scenery and greatly diversified
industries, and in depicting these the Captain has the pen of a
ready writer, simple and concise...."

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_Michigan Christian Advocate._

"'Down the Great River' is a book of great current interest. It is
packed full of things people ought to know. Not only is there a
full and well-written account of the finding of the true source of
the Mississippi, but a wonderful amount of fact and incident picked
up along its shores from its headwaters clear down to New Orleans
and the Gulf of Mexico."

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_Detroit Tribune._

"This interesting work gives an account of the discovery of the
true source of the Mississippi River, by the author. From the first
page to the last the book teems with information and topographical
and geographical data to be found nowhere else. Captain Glazier
carries his readers along with him from the source of the mighty
river down through a stretch of over three thousand miles clear
into the salt waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The author made the
trip in an open canoe, and as he proceeds downwards discourses
pleasantly upon the features of the landscape, the characteristics
of the people and the important towns upon the banks of the Great
River."

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_Grand Rapids (Michigan) Leader._

"Lake Itasca has been the accredited head of the Mississippi for
fifty years, and the author's desire to pursue further
investigations into the great north country was due to conflicting
reports published by