(#179203) GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, STATIONS, GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, SULPHUR, SODA AND HOT SPRINGS, SCENERY, WATERING PLACES, SUMMER RESORTS; WHERE TO LOOK FOR AND HUNT THE BUFFALO, ANTELOPE, DEER, AND OTHER GAME; TROUT FISHING, ETC., ETC. IN FACT, TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WORTH SEEING -- WHERE TO SEE IT -- WHERE TO GO -- HOW TO GO -- AND WHOM TO STOP WITH WHILE PASSING OVER THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD OF CAL.,THEIR BRANCHES AND CONNECTIONS BY STAGE AND WATER, FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Illustrated. Crofutt, publishers Eaton.
GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, STATIONS, GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, SULPHUR, SODA AND HOT SPRINGS, SCENERY, WATERING PLACES, SUMMER RESORTS; WHERE TO LOOK FOR AND HUNT THE BUFFALO, ANTELOPE, DEER, AND OTHER GAME; TROUT FISHING, ETC., ETC. IN FACT, TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WORTH SEEING -- WHERE TO SEE IT -- WHERE TO GO -- HOW TO GO -- AND WHOM TO STOP WITH WHILE PASSING OVER THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD OF CAL.,THEIR BRANCHES AND CONNECTIONS BY STAGE AND WATER, FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Illustrated.
GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, STATIONS, GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, SULPHUR, SODA AND HOT SPRINGS, SCENERY, WATERING PLACES, SUMMER RESORTS; WHERE TO LOOK FOR AND HUNT THE BUFFALO, ANTELOPE, DEER, AND OTHER GAME; TROUT FISHING, ETC., ETC. IN FACT, TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WORTH SEEING -- WHERE TO SEE IT -- WHERE TO GO -- HOW TO GO -- AND WHOM TO STOP WITH WHILE PASSING OVER THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD OF CAL.,THEIR BRANCHES AND CONNECTIONS BY STAGE AND WATER, FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Illustrated.
GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, STATIONS, GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, SULPHUR, SODA AND HOT SPRINGS, SCENERY, WATERING PLACES, SUMMER RESORTS; WHERE TO LOOK FOR AND HUNT THE BUFFALO, ANTELOPE, DEER, AND OTHER GAME; TROUT FISHING, ETC., ETC. IN FACT, TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WORTH SEEING -- WHERE TO SEE IT -- WHERE TO GO -- HOW TO GO -- AND WHOM TO STOP WITH WHILE PASSING OVER THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD OF CAL.,THEIR BRANCHES AND CONNECTIONS BY STAGE AND WATER, FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Illustrated.
GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, STATIONS, GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, SULPHUR, SODA AND HOT SPRINGS, SCENERY, WATERING PLACES, SUMMER RESORTS; WHERE TO LOOK FOR AND HUNT THE BUFFALO, ANTELOPE, DEER, AND OTHER GAME; TROUT FISHING, ETC., ETC. IN FACT, TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WORTH SEEING -- WHERE TO SEE IT -- WHERE TO GO -- HOW TO GO -- AND WHOM TO STOP WITH WHILE PASSING OVER THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD OF CAL.,THEIR BRANCHES AND CONNECTIONS BY STAGE AND WATER, FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Illustrated.

GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, STATIONS, GOVERNMENT FORTS AND CAMPS, MOUNTAINS, LAKES, RIVERS, SULPHUR, SODA AND HOT SPRINGS, SCENERY, WATERING PLACES, SUMMER RESORTS; WHERE TO LOOK FOR AND HUNT THE BUFFALO, ANTELOPE, DEER, AND OTHER GAME; TROUT FISHING, ETC., ETC. IN FACT, TO TELL YOU WHAT IS WORTH SEEING -- WHERE TO SEE IT -- WHERE TO GO -- HOW TO GO -- AND WHOM TO STOP WITH WHILE PASSING OVER THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD OF CAL.,THEIR BRANCHES AND CONNECTIONS BY STAGE AND WATER, FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Illustrated. Chicago: Crofutt & Eaton, Publishers, 1870. 17.3x12.5 cm, pp. 1-244, 17 inserted plates with woodcut illustrations, other illustrations in the text, 1 inserted map (folded), 2 other maps in the text, 15 inserted advertising leaves on colored paper stock, publisher's green pebbled leather stamped in blind and titled "From Ocean to Ocean" on the front cover, brown coated endpapers. Second edition. The folded map, 17x71 cm, is "Map of Trans-Continental Railroad and its Connections from Omaha to San Francisco," with timetables on verso dated 16 May 1870. The Calaveras Grove of Big Trees is briefly described on page 239; A brief description of "Yosemite Valley" and the routes to it is found on pages 238-239. "Along with Appleton and Rand McNally, George A. Crofutt helped to establish and popularize the genre of the general traveler's guidebook in the United States" (Raab). For more information on Crofutt and the western guidebook industry, see J. Valerie Fifer, American progress[:] the growth of the transport, tourist, and information industries in the nineteenth-century West seen through the life and times of George A. Crofutt ... (1988). Howes C 901. Sabin 17587. See Cowan (1933), p. 150 for 1871 and 1883 editions. Ownership inscription of John Edwin Sandys of San Francisco dated 8 September 1870 on the verso of front free endpaper and his marginalia in pencil on several pages. Front cover separated, rubbing at extremities; some internal wear, a good copy. All the editions of all the Crofutt guides are quite scarce in commerce. (#179203).

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