scarcely a wilder region on this continent than
exists in Northern Minnesota, and it has so remained in spite of
the explorations of Beltrami, Schoolcraft, and Nicollet, who,
perhaps, ought to have been a little more exhaustive in their
efforts when on the same depended the designation of the actual
source of a great river. Nevertheless, at the date above mentioned,
Captain Glazier, at the head of a small but indomitable band,
emerged from Lake Itasca, and the birch-bark canoes of the party
were urged against a strong current and a bulwark of rushes,
through a stream seven feet wide and three deep, until the clear
waters of another lake came in view. The greatest diameter of this
new body of water is about two miles, its feeders are traceable to
springs only, and hence it is unquestionably the primal source
whence the Father of Waters starts on his long journey of 3,184
miles to the Gulf of Mexico."...

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_Burlington Hawkeye._

"In the summer of 1881, Captain Willard Glazier, well known as a
popular writer, made a remarkable canoe voyage from the source of
the Mississippi down its entire length to the Gulf of Mexico. Prior
to starting on this unprecedented voyage, he organized and led an
expedition to the headwaters of the river in Northern Minnesota,
with a view of setting at rest the vexed question as to the true
source of the mighty river. Captain Glazier and his party left
Saint Paul, duly equipped with canoes and commissariat, July
Fourth, 1881, and arrived at Lake Itasca July twenty-first. Thence,
by the aid of his Indian guides, he penetrated to another lake
beyond Itasca, and connected therewith by a stream which is a
continuation of the Mississippi, and at that point is simply a
narrow creek. The lake thus entered by Captain Glazier he claims to
be the true source of the Father of Waters. LAKE GLAZIER now
appears on the maps as the source of the Great River."

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_Saint Paul Times._

... "Captain Glazier's claims are supported emphatically by the
overwhelming testimony of thousands of the most distinguished and
competent authorities in the Northwest. Glazier undoubtedly
expended much time and treasure in investiga