Woolworth, James M.:

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NEBRASKA IN 1857. A rare gazetteer of Nebraska Territory published just three years after the territory was organized, and "one of the first, if not the first, published accounts of the territory in book form" (Streeter). The handcolored frontispiece map "is from the same plate as the Colton map, Nebraska and Kansas, copyrighted 1855, in the Colton atlas, but with an inset Map of the Surveyed Portion of Nebraska, which is not present on the atlas map" (Streeter). "Nebraska Territory comprised in 1857 all the area north of Kansas, and east of the Continental Divide, subsequently becoming the states of Montana, North and South Dakota, and Nebraska, although only a small portion had been surveyed and opened for formal entry" - Wagner-Camp. This guide was written to provide "accurate and satisfactory information on such points as are of interest to a person looking toward Nebraska with a view to settlement or investment" and includes chapters describing the history of the territory, its government, the then current state of railway development and its future, how land claims were filed, the physical geography of the territory and the surveyed counties then present. There is also a brief statement purportedly describing education in Nebraska, but in reality is an introduction for a catalog of "common school" textbooks issued by A. S. Barnes & Co., with whom Woolworth co-published this guide. Although the book's imprint states, "Omaha City, N.T.," the verso of the titlepage shows t

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