'Grand Army of the
Republic,' on the morning of May ninth, as far as Brighton, he
there took leave of them, and with one companion, rode as far as
Albany, the captain lecturing by the way wherever inducement
offered, and handing over the profits to the benefit of the Widows'
and Orphans' Fund of the G. A. R. Many of these lectures were well
attended, and the receipts large, as letters of thanks from the
various 'Posts' testify.

"From Albany Captain Glazier pursued his journey alone, and rode
the same horse through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska, as far as Omaha.
Thence he proceeded on whatever quadruped of the equine species he
could obtain, which was capable of shaking the dust from its feet
nimbly. That he was fortunate in this respect is proven by the fact
that he rode from Omaha to San Francisco, a distance of nineteen
hundred and eighty-eight miles in thirty days, making an average of
about sixty-seven miles per diem. The distance from Omaha to
Cheyenne, five hundred and twenty-two miles, he accomplished in six
days; the greatest distance accomplished in one day of fourteen
hours was one hundred and sixty-six miles, three mustangs being
called into requisition for the purpose. The entire time occupied
by the journey was two hundred days, the captain reaching the
Golden Gate on the twenty-fourth day of November. The actual number
of days in the saddle was one hundred and forty-four, which gives
an average of twenty-eight miles and seven-tenths per day.

"During this strange journey of more than four thousand miles,
Captain Glazier delivered one hundred and four lectures for the
object before mentioned, and also for the benefit of the Custer
Monument Fund, and visited six hundred and forty-eight cities,
villages and stations. He tested the merits of three hundred and
thirty-three hotels, farm-houses and ranches, and made special
visits to over one hundred public institutions and places of
resort. He killed three buffaloes, eight antelopes, and twenty-two
prairie wolves, thus enjoying to the full all the pleasurable
excitement of hunting on the plains.

"But on the thirty-first of October, while in the company of two
herders, the tables were turned, and a band of hostile Arrapah