Turner, T.G. and C.E.:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

TURNER'S GUIDE FROM THE LAKES TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS...INCLUDING A HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RAILROADS OF THE COUNTRY, TOWNS AND CITIES ALONG THE ROUTE, AND NOTICES OF THE CONNECTING ... An extensive guide to travel from Cleveland and Chicago to the Missouri River, through Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Rocky Mountains via a number of railroads, including the Cleveland and Toledo, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, Chicago and North-Western, Union Pacific, and Pacific and Sioux City Railroad. Included are chapters on early explorations in the West, railroads, steamboat travel, manufactures, and general capabilities and prospects for the West. Pages 213-232 are devoted to Wyoming, including an early description of Cheyenne and towns in the Black Hills. The last twenty pages contain ads (many of them illustrated) for merchants, real estate agents, attorneys, bankers, etc. from all over Nebraska, Wyoming Territory, Iowa, and Indiana. The colored frontispiece depicts a Studebaker Wagon. A lively western travel book. Howes lists a gazetteer of the St. Joseph valley by Turner published in 1867, but not the present work. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS locates only four copies (CSmH, DLC, IC, ICH). Scarce.

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