ting not only the
source of the Mississippi, but the geography and history of the
entire river, from its source to the Gulf.... The leading map
publishers have endorsed his claims, and do so in a way that leaves
no doubt that they place implicit confidence in him as a careful
and trustworthy geographer and historian. Rand, McNally & Co., and
George F. Cram, of Chicago; Matthews, Northrup & Co., of Buffalo;
A. S. Barnes & Co., of New York; University Publishing Company, of
New York; W. & A. K. Johnston, of Edinburgh, Scotland; MacMillan &
Co., London and New York; W. M. Bradley & Brother, Philadelphia,
and many others of the leading publishing houses, who have a heavy
personal interest in investigating the accuracy of everything they
publish, acknowledge Captain Glazier's claims by accepting his
views, and reproducing them in their books and maps. The press,
bar, pulpit, and legislature of the State of Minnesota give
unqualified assent through many of their leading members, to the
position of Captain Glazier."

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_Chicago Times._

"The most interesting portion of Captain Glazier's 'Down the Great
River' is the beginning, where the author gives the details of an
expedition made in 1881 by himself with five companions, when he
claims, with good grounds, to have fixed the actual, true source of
the Great River. His attention was called in 1876 to the fact that,
though everybody knows the mouth of the stream, there was then much
uncertainty about the source. In 1881 he found time to organize the
expedition named, and crossing the country to Itasca, embarked and
pushed through that lake up a stream flowing into it, and came upon
another considerable body of water fed by three streams originating
in springs at the foot of a curved range of hills some miles
further on. This lake he fixed upon as the true source, and since
his published accounts many geographers and map-workers have
modified their works according to his discoveries. He does not
claim to be the actual discoverer of the lake, as such, but only to
have been the first to discover and establish the fact that it is
the highest link in a chain in which Itasca is another; or, in
other words, the true source of the river. The Indian n