, firing
and receiving the fire of the Indians as we galloped off on two of
their ponies which we had appropriated. After being dismounted by a
shot, and dismounting the Indian who had killed my horse, I finally
eluded my pursuers by leaping into a gulch in the mountains, where
I remained until daylight, when, finding no Indians in sight, I
pursued my way on foot in a southwesterly direction, which brought
me to a cattle-ranche late in the afternoon. Here I secured a fresh
mustang, and once more turned my face toward the setting sun.

My money and personal effects were of course promptly taken
possession of by the Arrapahoes. I am now moving westward at an
average of over sixty miles per day, confidently expecting to reach
San Francisco by the twenty-fourth instant. In our encounter on the
Laramie Plains, five members of the "Lo!" family were sent to their
Happy Hunting Ground, and in the matter of scalps you may score at
least two for your humble servant.

With kind regards to friends in Cleveland, I close this letter to
mount my horse,

And remain, ever truly yours,
Willard Glazier.

Captain Glazier's main object now was to push on to Sacramento as fast
as his mustang would carry him. Kelton (Utah), at the northwest corner
of Salt Lake, was accordingly reached soon after leaving Ogden, where he
halted a few hours. This station is seven hundred and ninety miles from
San Francisco. Stock is extensively grazed in its vicinity, feeding on
sage brush in the winter and such grass as they can get; but excellent
grazing is found in the summer. The cattle are shipped to markets on the
Pacific coast in large numbers. Terrace (Utah) was the next
resting-place, seven hundred and fifty-seven miles from San Francisco,
in the midst of a desert with all its dreary loneliness. Continuing his
pace at an average of eight miles per hour--the temperature being very
low at an elevation of nearly five thousand feet--Captain Glazier
observed a few only of the salient features of the wild country he now
passed through, his position on horseback being less favorable for
topographical study than that of the tourist comfortably seated in a
palace-car.

Wells (Nevada) was duly reached by the lonely rider, who found on
inquiry that he was now only six hundred and sixty-one miles from his
dest