Strahorn, Robert E.:

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THE HAND-BOOK OF WYOMING AND GUIDE TO THE BLACK HILLS AND BIG HORN REGIONS FOR CITIZEN, EMIGRANT, AND TOURIST. Surely one of the most rapidly composed pieces of prose written on the road in America. As the author points out in the preface, scarcely sixty days elapsed between the proposal to write this work and its publication. The period also encompassed his honeymoon, and his wife tells of the trip during which the work was written in her book, Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage. Strahorn wrote while travelling, and by the time he arrived back in Chicago, where the book was actually printed (by Knight & Leonard), he had composed the entire text. One of the most thorough Western promotional works, and the first guide to be published giving a history and description of the region. The three main sections of the Hand-Book deal with the resources of Wyoming (including sections on Yellowstone and women's suffrage); counties and cities; and the Big Horn and Black Hills regions. Also features several pages of contemporary advertisements, including a "Special Notice to Gold Seekers" from the Union Pacific Railroad, offering special rates on trips from Chicago to Custer City and Deadwood.

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