Union Pacific Railroad Company

The Union Pacific Railroad Company, Chartered by Progress of their Road West from Omaha , Nebraska, Accross the Continent. Making with Its Connections, and Unbroken LIne From the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Five Hundred and Forty Miles Completed December, 1867.

New York, Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1868. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 32pp. Pamphlet 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches in size, describes the company's progress during the construction of their cross continental railroad in 1867. Cover and map are not present. The 32 page booklet is in very good condition unworn condition. Good.

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Book number: 004824

Catalogue: American West, American History, Travel and Geography

Keywords: Railroads Construction Tracks Mining

Fearon, Henry Bradshaw

Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America; Contained in Eight Reports Addressed to the Thirty -Nine English Families

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme, and Brown, 1818. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Binding. iiv, errata, 462pp. FIRST EDITION. Disbound, foxing, endpapers missing, text is complete and binding is holding well. Could be rebound. Unflattering picture of the western frontier" (Howes F-65) Poor.

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Book number: 004040

Catalogue: American History, Travel and Geography, American West

Keywords: "New England" "New York" Illinois Virginia Pennsylvania Territories Slavery

Houstoun, Mrs. (Charlotte Houstoun)

Hesperos: Or Travels in the West. (2 Volumes as One)

London, John W. Parker, 1850. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 293, 279pp. Blue embossed cloth, gilt ship vignette to front cover, all edges gilt, frontispiece with tissue-guard for each volume. Covers edgeworn, spine chipped at head and tail and darkened, contents age-toned most heavily at first and last few pages, light foxing to fronitspieces and c first and last few pages, binding is tight. Evocative descriptions of the landscapes, environment and the people in America in mid 19th century. Good.

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Book number: 003920

Catalogue: Social History, Travel and Geography, American West

Keywords: "New England" Mississippi Settlers Slavery Washington "New Orleans" Louisiana "Women's Issues"

Tuckerman, HenryT.

America and Her Commentators. With a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States

New York, Charles Scribner, 1864. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 460pp. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering. Light rubbing to extremities, spine faintly sunned, small chip to spine, foxing throughout, owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Travel in America from the early explorers to the 19th century. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003185

Catalogue: American History, Travel and Geography, American West

Keywords: "De Tocqueville" Burnaby Chateaubriand Anbury Crevecoeur Hamilton Trollope Bartram Clinton