[Wells, John G.]:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

WELLS' POCKET HAND-BOOK OF IOWA; PAST, PRESENT, AND PROSPECTIVE. COMPRISING A CONCISE DELINEATION OF THE STATE, ITS HISTORY, SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS, RIVERS, LAKES, RAILROADS, INSTITUTIONS, ... A rare guide and map, providing detailed information for new emigrants to Iowa. A synopsis of Iowa's preemption laws for claiming public land as a homestead is provided as well as the forms, instructions to file claims, description of land exempted, lands subject to government surveys, etc. The inducements held out by Iowa to emigrants are provided, as well as detailed information on Iowa's natural resources, including soil, climate, crops, timber lands, minerals, fruit trees, etc.), rivers, lakes, and creeks, plus information regarding agricultural enterprises such as wool growing, stock raising, dairy farming, etc. Details of Iowa's railway system are also supplied, as is information on various institutions (schools, libraries, colleges, lodges, various asylums, banking houses, land offices, etc.). There are chapters on government, finance, and holding elections, in addition to a full description of the counties in the state and the principal towns in each. The colorful map of Iowa locates the cities, villages, railroad lines, proposed rail lines, rivers, and creeks and shows that many of the northwestern counties were still unsettled. An outstanding guide to Iowa, published just eleven years after admission to the Union. The Streeter copy, which sold for $120 in 1967, had three m

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