The Pacific Railroad A Defense Against Its Enemies With Report Of The Supervisors Of Placer County

by H De La Montanya Placer County Board Of Supervisors A Friend To The Pacific Railroad

$7,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

N.p. Sacramento , 1864. 21.5x13.5 cm octavo , pp. 1-3 4-35 36: blank , publisher's yellow wrappers printed in black, sewn. First edition. A rare pamphlet published in response to a pamphlet entitled The Dutch Flat Swindle. The dream of a transcontinental railroad that would connect the United States from east to west was rumored to be an elaborate scam of the Central Pacific Railroad. Even Theodore Judah, who had

• Binding: Wrappers

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