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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition.

An early transcontinental railway travel guide to California and the Western United States. Issued two years following the completion of the transcontinental railway, this entertaining and informative guide is interleaved with pages of advertisements from businesses in San Francisco, Calistoga, Sacramento, Denver, New York City, St. Louis, and Omaha printed on papers of various colors and contains a large folding "Map of the Central Pacific Railroad and its Connections" and a map of "Rail & Stage Route to Big Tree Groves and Yosemite" tipped to the rear of the Central Pacific Railroad map. Organized from West to East, (the first railway travel guide in the United States to do so, according to the editor), the guide provides "a minutely detailed account of every city, town, railroad station mining district, mountain, valley, lake river, hunting and fishing ground along the trans-continental railroad." Detailed information about the towns of the Pacific Coast and the Southwestern United States is provided, as well as more extensive descriptions of California's principal cities, mining and agriculture. There are detailed sections on California's wine, coastline, and redwood forests, as well as guidance for California settlers, and for tourists hunting buffalo, antelope and elk in the various states and territories where the game was found. Other western states and territories profiled in this guide include Oregon, Nevada, Kansas and the territories of Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and Kansas. The guide also provides historical context for each city, state, or territory including a description of Wyoming vigilantes and its first women jurors. This copy was clearly well used, and an early owner has recorded the details of several trips between Chicago and California from 1874 to 1878 OCLC locates copies of this rare travel guide to the American West at just four institutions: the American Antiquarian Society, the University of Michigan, the New-York Historical Society, and the University of Nevada at Reno. COWAN, p.206. OCLC 191224073, 58672074. Brown publisher's cloth ruled in blind, spine gilt. Cloth rubbed and frayed, split at rear joint, spine peeling. Hinges cracked but holding by endpapers, lacking an unnumbered leaf of advertisements between pages 144 and 145. Contemporary penciled marginalia scattered throughout and contemporary pencil and ink travel notes on rear flyleaf, endpaper, and pastedown. A good copy. …