A promotional pamphlet for Atchison, Kansas, issued by the city’s Board of Trade and treating “in detail of the magnificent resources of the vast territory naturally tributary to this city, and the advantages of Atchison as a commercial and manufacturing centre.” The contents consist of a map emphasizing the centrality.....
A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and Detroit copper companies; also public buildings such as the Morenci Club, Morenci Hotel, South Clifton High School, and Detroit Copper Mining Store. Estimated dates.....
An extensive and richly illustrated promotional account of Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, with much on mining operations, and featuring several maps. A large folding map at the front shows the gold fields; another map shows the wagon road and railroad ties of the District, and another the Economic Geology.....
An excellent, quite substantial western city directory, with maps and advertisements printed in color. It includes a double-page advertising map of the state of Kansas for Strickler, Daniels & Pounds, General Real Estate Dealers, a fold-out Map of the City of Topeka and Suburbs, an introductory article on Topeka, a......
The first edition of the first brand book covering the entire state of South Dakota, preceded only by the Brand Book of the Western South Dakota Stock Growers' Association (apparently issued in 1893 when the organization was founded), which lists only the brands of association members. Printed by order of.....
First edition of this anonymously-authored account of an excursion on the Trans-continental Railroad taken by “the general passenger, ticket and freight agents of the railroads” in September of 1870, at the invitation of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad Companies. On May 10, 1869 the Union Pacific and the.....
A popular tale of Western adventure recounting the heroism of a born-in-the-saddle cowboy, “Young Wild West,” as told by an “Old Scout.” This five-cent weekly is the first publication in the series of Toussey’s highly successful “Young Wild West” series. In this debut title, the “Prince of the Saddle” is.....
A pamphlet promoting the developing town of Broken Bow, Nebraska including a large map, produced two years after the railroad arrived in the area. Platted in 1882, Broken Bow in Custer County, Nebraska allegedly took its name from the suggestion of a settler who found a broken bow in the.....
First edition of Collins’s account of his overland journey and other western adventures. “The author was a post trader at Fort Laramie for 10 years. His book is a most valuable journal of his trip across the plains and adventures among the Indians; hunting, mining, and trading experiences” (Eberstadt). In.....
First edition. A history of mining throughout the world, fortuitously published at the beginning of the California gold rush. “The discovery of California gold made Comstock’s world survey appeal to a much wider audience. He hurriedly included information on California and added a final chapter entitled ‘Estimated Expenses of Outfits.....
A rare inscribed prospectus for Captain Jack Crawford’s second book. Among the representative contents included are such poems as “The Heroes Departed,” “The Mountain Boy’s Letter,” “Mother’s Prayers,” and “Hood’s Children.” Also included are “pen portraits” of Crawford, composed by a retired Cavalry officer and an editor of a New.....
Dutton’s spectacular atlas of the Grand Canyon, published in connection with the Powell Geological Survey, with a fine series of chromolithographic maps and views after artists Thomas Moran and William Henry Holmes. The first publication of the United States Geological Survey, this atlas stands as one of the most remarkable.....
Third and best edition. "One of the first published accounts of the gold discovery in book form "--Streeter. The first and second editions were published in 1848, and included only a small woodcut map. Included here is a larger folding map entitled “Map of the United States Mexico &c Showing.....
A promotional pamphlet designed to attract prospective buyers to southeastern Nebraska, including a map showcasing the Burlington Route railroad network in the region. By 1887, the southeastern region of Nebraska was already well-settled and connected extensively by rail, largely dominated by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q, commonly known.....
An account of St. Martins, an Anglican chapel in Denver, Colorado, with illustrations after photographs by Laura Gilpin taken early in her career. Inscribed by Gilpin on a leaf preceding the title page.
An exceptionally rare and important photographically-illustrated work documenting President Chester Arthur’s legendary trip to Yellowstone National Park at a critical moment in its history, featuring photographs by expedition member Frank Jay Haynes, who would subsequently become the official Yellowstone photographer. Just twelve copies of this album were made, one for.....
A travel guide and map issued by the Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western railroads, with descriptions of numerous towns, cities, springs, resorts, boarding houses, roads, gorges, passes, and other points of interest located along the line. The map ranges from Chicago to California, and from Montana.....
First edition of a venomous critique of early 19th century American culture, written by a traveling English-born Australian. Writing the Rambles after traveling through New England, New York, the Great Lakes region, Western United States, and Eastern Canada, James was “very severe on the Americans” (Sabin), expressing his dislike of.....
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An account by the first casualty on the California front of the Mexican American War, Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston, dating from Sept. 24 to Dec. 4th 1846. Excerpted from Emory’s Notes of a Military Reconnaissance (1848), it narrates the American Army of the West’s passage along the Gila Trail. This volume.....
A report on the relations of the federal government and the Nez Perce compiled for General Oliver Otis Howard by the Indian Agent in charge of the Nez Perce Agency and issued in the year immediately preceding the forced relocation of the tribe from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa.....
Autograph edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Curtis and Ryan. This copy is number 163. An historical romance set in the southwest, this is the second collaboration between Ryan and Curtis. It was published while Curtis was in the midst of compiling the North American Indian (1907–1930), the.....
A scarce and early tract presenting the laws of the Oregon Territory and an argument for its inclusion in the United States. At the time, the territory was hotly contested ground between the United States and England. The author, Charles Saxton, traveled overland with the Independent Oregon Company in 1844.....
"Schoolcraft and one companion named Levi Pettibone left Potosi (in the lead-mining region of southeastern Missouri) on November 6, 1818, and returned on February 9, 1819, having traveled an estimated nine hundred miles. The settlers that Schoolcraft and Pettibone encountered were just beginning to build cabins and plant crops..." (Wagner-Camp).....
A promotional pamphlet for land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, including former Indian reservation lands, with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, the.....
All of Strahorn’s promotional works on the great Northwest have become scarce. Most of this pamphlet discusses the opportunities in stock raising and mining in Montana, with a section on Yellowstone. It contains very early, handsome woodcut engravings of Helena and Bozeman, public buildings, Yellowstone Lake and Falls, and the.....