e.--Gives "Paul Revere" a rest.--Decatur.--
Niles.--Michigan City.--Chicago 376

CHAPTER XXXIII.

CHICAGO TO OMAHA.

Returns to Michigan City.--Joliet.--Thomas Babcock.--Herbert
Glazier.--Ottawa.--La Salle.--Colonel Stevens.--Press Notice.--Taken
for a highwayman.--Milan.--Davenport.--Press Notice.--Iowa
City.--Des Moines.--Press Notice.--Attacked by prairie
wolves.--Council Bluffs.--Omaha 401

CHAPTER XXXIV.

CAPTAIN GLAZIER CAPTURED BY INDIANS.

Captain Glazier as a horseman.--Cheyenne.--Two herders.--Captured
by Indians.--Torture and death of a herder.--Escape.--Ogden.--
Letter to Major Hessler.--Kelton.--Terrace.--Wells.--Halleck.--
Elko.--Palisade.--Argenta.--Battle Mountain.--Golconda.--Humboldt.--
"The majesty of the law."--Lovelock's.--White Plains.--Desert.--
Wadsworth.--Truckee.--Summit.--Sacramento.--Brighton.--
Stockton.--SAN FRANCISCO 410

CHAPTER XXXV.

RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA.

Returns to the East by the "Iron Horse."--Boston _Transcript_ on the
journey on horseback.--Resumes literary work.--"Peculiarities of
American Cities."--Preface to book.--A domestic incident.--A worthy
son.--Claims of parents.--Purchases the Old Homestead, and presents
it to his father and mother.--Letter to his parents.--The end 431

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

An interval of literary work.--Conception of another expedition.--
Reflections upon the Old Explorers.--Indian rumors.--Determined to
find the true source of the Great River.--Starting on the eventful
journey.--Joined by his brother George and Barrett Channing
Paine.--Collecting materials for the expedition.--Brainerd the
first point of departure.--Through the Chippewa country.--Seventy
miles of government road.--Curiosity its own reward.--Arrival at
Leech Lake 437

CHAPTER XXXVII

HOME OF THE CHIPPEWAS.

An aboriginal red man.--A primitive hotel.--A native of the
forest.--Leech Lake.--Major Ruffe's arrival.--White Cloud.--Paul
Beaulieu and h