Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-09-04
"ANNIAS OF EXPLORERS,

New York Sun to Willard G]azier,
the pretended explorer. The Sun says:
"Any thing with less elasticity
than rubber would have been crushed
to powder long ago under the trip
hammer Of exposure. Nobody but
Glacier'would have been stupid enough
to palm of upon a scientific journal
page after page Of Schoolcraft's we'll
known book as narrative of his own
experiences,or could have held up
his head in decent society after Mr..
Harrow's. scathing exposure ofhim as
a literary thief: The mans record Of
his imaginary exploration was long
ago repudiated by Charming Paine.
the only white man, except bis brother
George, who accompanied him. He
has been denounced by the very In
dams Of the Itasca region to whom
he assigned a theatrical role in the
story Of his exploits.
He has been flayed alive by the
Minnesota Historical society, which in
1887 published complete exposure
Of his pretentions, dubbed him a per-
verter of history and distorter of ge-
ography and dismissed him as char
latan adventurer. He has been pill
lored by the legislature of Minnesota.
The people Of that state had been 80
far imposed upon that the lawmakers
found it necessary in April, 1889, to
enact a law .forbidding the use in pub
lie schools Of any school geography
giving the name Of Lake Glazier to
Elk Lake. He has been left without
= leg to stand on by Russell Human,
Hopewell Clark, J. V. Brewer and
other geographers or practical survey
Ors.
This storm Of denunciation and in
dignant protest was aroused, not by
the Importance of the mans claims,
for they were too himsy to stand an
hours investigation, but by the fact
that bis audacious falsehoods were
accepted ~ facts by a few text book
and map makers, both in this country
and abroad; andmaps began to circu-
late the world over in which the real
discoveries of the Mississippi's source
were dishonored that brazeu adven.
turer might flourish. No wonder
that intelligent people in Minnesota
cried out in anger when they saw
maps on which the appropriate Indi-
an names off,, dozen Of their beautiful
lakes had been replaced with appelIa.
tons Of Willard Glazier and his nu.
merous relatives. Anybody who i'm,
agines that Glaziar. mill finch under
the disapproval Of the entire geo
graphical world has mistaken this man
He Graves notority.s All the geogra.
pliers in Christendom cannot give him
too much of it. ...'
About once in a century such per-
son q Glaier may be amusing as a
psychological study, but the usefulness
Of this particular specimen is about
5sxhapstsd. He would have been
dropped long ago if there were not too
many persons inclined to except error
brazenly reiterated, a. the truth. It
was for the benefit Of people with
short memories that it seemed worth
while for the Berne congress- to notice
Glazier. tits hoped that the plain
declaration If this body that Glazier
~ fraud will be effective: and ifthis
explorer will retire on his unfragrant
7 laurels we shall al forgive him, for
~ attempt to change the map Of
Minneaofs for the benefit and glory
SFof hcmself and bis descendants.
nihs's 1stsrn 1fsn Ne City.
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