![Item #5610 111 Days to San Francisco! Merchants’ Express Line of Clipper Ships[.] None But...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5610_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631721653)
A scarce clipper ship card advertising the Talisman of the Cooley packet ship line, illustrated with a vivid image of Columbia printed in red and blue along the left side. Cooley boasts of a 111 day voyage to San Francisco, a guarantee of “prompt dispatch,” and the announcement that the.....
An rare broadside extra of the Sacramento Daily Union—the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi—detailing a gang murder, with the confessions and last words of the perpetrators and an account of the execution; this example unique in bearing an autograph letter, signed, by a Yuba County gold miner on.....
This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of ‘76 festival, including “Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day,” a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,”the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America.” One image shows President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge taken into the Sioux Tribe.....
A scarce example of the colorful letterhead for “the Great Codys,” a Wild West show put on by sharpshooter, actor, and the first British aviator Samuel Franklin Cody. Consisting of a tableaux of ten vignettes, this letterhead depicts the show’s cast and illustrates a number of their acts. Consisting of.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside detailing three bloody days in the final stages of the Modoc War, printed in Salt Lake City from a series of dispatches sent to San Francisco by U.S. troops pursuing Captain Jack (Kintpuash) and his comrades through the “Lava Beds” of northern California. Vivid updates from.....
![Item #8751 Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska. 50,000 Acres of Land For Sale…[recto] Map of...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8751_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728944892)
An apparently unrecorded broadsheet advertising the sale of “good lands on Most Favorable Terms” in Saline and Gage Counties, Nebraska, with a map showing the available plots. Text on the recto of the broadsheet describes Saline County’s “natural physical features,” “climate and rainfall as factors in crop-growing,” “population and material.....
An attractive brochure for Santa Fe’s first centennial-style exposition, which was held to boost investment and tourism after the city was bypassed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Claiming to mark one third of a millennium since the founding of the city, The Santa Fe Tertio-Millennial Anniversary Character.....
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.....
![Item #9144 Bar Room in the Mines [and] Long Tom. J. D. Borthwick, del.?](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9144_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729194925)
A scarce pictorial letter sheet illustrating two phases of a California gold miner’s life—working a sluice and swilling booze. The upper view shows three men drinking and playing cards around a table in a mining camp bar room, whose door is ajar. Standing behind a bar stocked with bottles and.....
A scarce broadside in praise of the heroic conduct and “noble traits” of Andrew Neill, a Scottish-born Texan soldier and attorney campaigning for Lieutenant Governor as an independent in 1855. After immigrating to the United States as a young man and establishing himself as a probate judge in Mississippi, Andrew.....
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.....
![Item #8876 [Illustrated trade card of T. Connell, Indian trader and cattle supplies dealer, etc.]...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8876_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1728568149)
A rare illustrated trade card for Indian trader Charles T. Connell, who also dealt in cattle supplies, camp supplies, and a range of other goods. The card features illustrations of livestock, both bovine and equine, each animal bearing a distinct brand. One Mr. Till Lincoln is identified as the manager.....
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.....
A promotional broadside centering on “poet-prospector” Clarence E. Eddy’s evocative narrative of his discovery of a new mine in central Idaho, which he now announces to the public. Featured at the top is “one of the few pictures thus far taken at the new Monte Cristo mine” in Custer County.....
![Item #7629 $750 Reward! A Reward of $250 for each, will pe [sic] paid at the office of Wells...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7629_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661541174)
An exceptionally rare and quintessential Wells, Fargo & Co. stagecoach holdup broadside, issued by the company’s office “at Kelton, Nevada” (i.e., Kelton, Utah) and printed in Salt Lake City. Wells Fargo agent H. M. Ellsworth advertises a reward of $750 for the arrest and conviction of robbers ($250 for each).....
A large illustrated circular promoting a Wild West show-cum-circus produced by Adam Forepaugh and held in Manchester, New Hampshire on July 28th, 1888. Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890) was one of the great circus organizers of 19th century America from immediately after the Civil War until his death in 1890. He is.....
A large illustrated circular promoting Forepaugh’s Wild West show-cum-circus in New York City. Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890) was one of the great circus organizers of nineteenth century America from immediately after the Civil War until his death in 1890. He is generally credited with the invention of the “Wild West” exhibition.....
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 unusually large and very scarce California pictorial letter-sheet view of the mining town of Columbia. An artist, architect and civil engineer, George Henry Goddard (1817–1906) left his native England in April 1850 to seek his fortune in California, arriving in San Francisco aboard the Diana in October of that.....
A scarce broadside advertising travel via the Oregon Stage Line’s overland mail route from Oregon City to Sacramento, illustrated with a wood engraving by California artist William Keith (probably after his own drawing or painting) and his partner Harrison Eastman. The Oregon Stage Line’s mail route connected with daily stages.....
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.....
This entertaining program promotes the sixteenth season of Hoyt’s “A Texas Steer or Money Makes the Mare Go”—a humorous “collection of saws and incidents” about Texas politics. Act I takes place at “Maverick Brander’s” cattle ranch, while Act II and III are set at the Arlington hotel in Washington county.....
A broadsheet promoting bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad Company during its first great construction push on the line, with a map at verso showing the projected rail line. Founded in 1865, the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. only began breaking ground on construction in 1870 after receiving extensive financial.....
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.....