The Hand-Book of Wyoming and Guide to the Black Hills and Big Horn Regions for Citizen, Emigrant and Tourist

by Robert E. Strahorn

$2,400 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front First edition in original cloth of an early history and guide to Wyoming, written by Robert Strahorn, a well-known publicist of the Gold Rush West. He traveled through the region with his wife, the writer and explorer Carrie Adell Strahorn. Beautifully illustrated, informative, and replete with period advertisements targeted to gold prospectors. Strahorn decided to write this early guide to Wyoming

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