Identifier: oceantooceanonho01glaz (find matches)
Title: 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 ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on, theSecond Regiment Nebraska Volunteers, the First Ne-braska Veteran Cavalry, and four companies of Cur-tis Horse, came almost entirely from Omaha. The first telegraph line reached Omaha in 1860. The first breaking of ground for the Union PacificRail Road took place in Omaha, December 3, 1863. The first train from the East reached Omaha bythe Chicago and Northwestern route, January 17,1867. So Omaha grew and prospered. It took abouttwenty-seven years to bring it out of original wildnessto the state of excellency in which I found it as Ipassed through on my horseback journey. Yet itseems but yesterday since no human dwelling occupiedthe place now covered by our young city. Herethe Indian council-fires burned ; on the bluffs, withno more civilized weapon than his bow and arrow,he hunted deer, buffalo, elk, bear and wolf. Herehis war whoop rang out clear and unmolested. Herebrave, free, unfearing, he dwelt, Monarch of all he surveyed. And now he is completely effaced from this region.
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A HALT AT OMAHA. 455 Gone and only remembered by some quaint name stillattached to stream or mountain. To-day the moving millions, both in this countryand Europe, are making earnest inquiry for Ne-braska/ 50,000 new inhabitants came to it in 1880.The close of the late war brought many ex-soldiersand their families here to claim land privileges nearOmaha, and from the four quarters of the globe theswelling thousands have come to settle with those thatmade their way thither. From Maine and Texas, andfrom every territory of the Rocky Mountains, theycame. The rank and file, the bone and muscle,were men who came to stay, who counted the cost,who measured the sacrifice. Under their faithfulhands the desert has been made to blossom like therose. The dug-out and the log house have givenplace to the elegant mansion, and thousands of groveshave sprung up almost as if by magic all over theprairies. These brave pioneers knew it would be so. Theybelieved in the embryo city. By faith they saw thefi

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