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Daniel Pratt (eccentric)
"General" Daniel Pratt, Jr. (born April 11, 1809 in Prattville, Chelsea, Massachusetts; died June 21, 1887 in Boston) was an American itinerant speaker, author, performance artist, eccentric, and poet.
==Life and work==
Pratt trained as a carpenter but abandoned this craft and wandered about the country doing freelance lecturing. He claimed to have walked over 200,000 miles, from Maine to the Dakotas, visiting 27 states and 16 Indian tribes.〔“End of a Wanderer's Life: ‘The Great American Traveler’ Makes His Last Trip” ''New York Times'' June 22, 1887, p. 5〕 He was widely known as the “Great American Traveler,” which was how he referred to himself with his characteristic disdain for modesty. His visits to American colleges came to be regarded by the students almost as a regular feature of campus life.〔Wilson, J.G.; Fiske, J. & Klos, S.L. ''Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography'' 1887–1889〕
He was often an appreciated and honored guest and speaker, though usually met with tongue-in-cheek praise. At times, though, his welcome came pre-worn-out, as when he rushed in on Leonard Bacon as he was entertaining guests at home, shook his hand and announced expectantly, “I, Sir, am no less a man than Daniel Pratt – Daniel Pratt, Sir, the great American traveler!” Dr. Bacon, unimpressed, replied, “All right – Travel!”〔“Some Hit And Miss Chat” ''New York Times'' September 7, 1885, p. 2〕
Pratt was a prolific and generous generator of ideas, but in spite of this was heard to complain that “it was utterly impossible for him to talk fast enough to get out his ideas, so rapidly did they grow in his fertile brain.”〔“Grand Demonstration: Arrival in Brooklyn of the Celebrated American Traveler, Gen. Daniel Pratt, Jr. – Eloquent Discourses of Prof. Ambrose and the General” ''Brooklyn Eagle'' October 11, 1859〕
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