. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . ing till four oclock I reached the boundary between In-diana and Illinois, realizing that at this point sixStates had added their rich scenes and splendid enter-prises to my memory. As I was moving along on the prairie just beforedark my ears caught the sound of a peculiar barkingand soon a pack of what I supposed to be dogs werefollowi
. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . ing till four oclock I reached the boundary between In-diana and Illinois, realizing that at this point sixStates had added their rich scenes and splendid enter-prises to my memory. As I was moving along on the prairie just beforedark my ears caught the sound of a peculiar barkingand soon a pack of what I supposed to be dogs werefollowing me. I noticed that PauVs manner changedand he appeared disturbed, but attributed this to thebarking and the persistent keeping at his heels of thelittle animals. To a man whom I met later, I ex-plained that I had been followed for some hours by apack of dogs, when he promptly informed me thatthey were doubtless prairie wolves. Of course to anEasterner this news gave an added interest to GrandPrairie. ®ne <5ttnkeb anb olljirtictl) ©ag. Robertson House,Joliet, Illinois,September Eighteenth. Had Paul brought out at eight oclock. As soonas he was saddled at Rich ton the man who attended tohim threw the rein over the neck of the horse, and a. CHICAGO TO DAVENPORT, 383 moment later he made his appearance unaccom-panied in tVunt of tlie llohnier House. This bein<^ anundoubted sign of his anxiety to be off, I mounted atonce and we were soon lessening the distance to Joliet,our evening destination, twenty-one miles away. Was all day again on Grand Prairie, which maygive some idea of this the greatest and truly the grand-est prairie yet passed on my route. Its proximity toChicago is doubtless one of the chief causes of thehigh winds for which the Windy City^ is noted;and if Chicago could, she would gladly change her in-convenient environment. At Lenox I halted for dinner, reaching Joliet atfour p. M. In riding through Jefferson street, I wasmet by Babcock who seemed much surpr
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