Illustrated brochure for the Cody Road into Yellowstone via the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy lines. “Have you ever heard of the Cody Road into Yellowstone Park?” This brochure is happy to educate. Text and photographs “Along the Road” offer something of a guided tour of...
A rare and richly detailed broadside advertising an extraordinary panoramic painting depicting the overland route to California and numerous California subjects, based on some 1500 daguerreotypes taken or commissioned by western photographer and lecturer J. Wesley Jones. This fascinating broadside, illustrated with two engravings of gold miners, offers a....
An railway brochure and map issued in the midst of the Great Dakota Boom. A folding brochure with 8 panels of promotional text and 5 panels of railroad time tables advertising not only its “Low Rates to Settlers and Land Hunters” but also that it “Runs More Through Trains from...
A striking and extensively detailed map of Yellowstone National Park, in a Northern Pacific Railway brochure promoting travel to both Yellowstone and Alaska. This fine map depicts the park and its surrounding areas, with relief represented pictorially. At the top of the map, the Northern Pacific R.R. runs parallel to...
A brochure promoting the Tishomingo region in the decade following the last of the Oklahoma land rushes. The old capital of the Chickasaw Nation and the county seat of Johnson County, Oklahoma, Tishomingo was primed for great things after statehood thanks to its Rock Island-Frisco railway connections, natural resources...
An unrecorded promotional circular encouraging tourism in Yellowstone National Park by way of the Central and Union Pacific railroads. This circular promotes the route from San Francisco to Yellowstone via the Central and Union Pacific’s luxurious Pullman Palace sleeping cars, which have just been put into service. “The passenger...
![Burning Daylight Part I How He Made Eleven Million Dollars [with] Burning Daylight [Part II] His Adventures in San Francisco. Jack London, author, actor and producer Hobart Bosworth.](/pictures/thumb/3786_1.jpg?v=1512248528)
An unrecorded pair of broadsides advertising an early silent film adaptation of Jack London’s novel Burning Daylight, produced by and starring film industry pioneer Hobart Bosworth. Burning Daylight tells the story of one Elam Harnish, an enormously energetic and successful Klondike Gold Rush miner, better known as “Burning Daylight,”...
A rare photographic trade card for Henry J. Kruse, a German emigre drawn to Colorado in 1860 at the age of 22 by the lure of the gold fields. Failing to strike it rich, Kruse abandoned mining and took up baking, thus launching a career that would see him emerge...