ng. He is
making the journey from Boston to San Francisco on horseback, and
alone, for the purpose of seeing the country, studying the people,
and gathering materials for a new work he is engaged upon. Captain
Glazier is well known to fame as a writer, having published several
valuable works, among them a war-record entitled, 'Capture,
Prison-Pen and Escape.'

"At the breaking out of the war, Willard Glazier, then a mere
youth, entered the Harris Light Cavalry, under Colonel Judson
Kilpatrick, and remained in the service until the close of the
rebellion, his career being marked by many adventures and
hair-breadth escapes. His feat of riding on horseback across the
continent, unattended, to gather materials for a book, is certainly
without a precedent, and shows a brave and intrepid spirit. His
horse 'Paul' was an object of great curiosity and interest."

Leaving Davenport, our traveller passed through Moscow and reached Iowa
City October fifth. The weather was now becoming very cold, and he found
it necessary to dismount occasionally and walk some warmth into his
limbs.

Registering at the St. James Hotel, Iowa City, Captain Glazier lectured
in the evening to a very full house, a profusion of cheers greeting him
on his arrival upon the platform, whither he was escorted by George B.
Edmunds, Esq.

Continuing his journey through Tiffin and Brooklyn to Kellogg, all in
the State of Iowa, he witnessed, he says, some of the finest landscapes
and grandest farms he had yet encountered during his journey. He rode
into Colfax, October twelfth, and Des Moines on the following day.

[Illustration: A Night Among Wolves.]

"I have not seen a brighter or more stirring city in my line of march
than Des Moines," writes Captain Glazier in his Journal. He wandered
over the city in company with two or three of the leading citizens,
admiring its numerous fine buildings and the evidences of its rapid
progress; and the next day the Des Moines _Leader_ came out with the
following notice of his visit:

"Captain Willard Glazier, the horseback traveler across the
continent, took in the Exposition on Saturday evening with intense
gratification. He says he has seen no place, on his route from
Boston, more promising than Des Moines. Among the calls he received
at the Jones House was one from Captain Conrad, a prominent
attorney from Missouri,