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LARAMIE, HAHNS PEAK AND PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM. THE DIRECT GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN WYOMING, NORTHERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH. -

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LARAMIE, HAHNS PEAK AND PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM. THE DIRECT GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN WYOMING, NORTHERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH.

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Boston: Tudor Press, [ca.1910]. First Edition. Oblong 4to, original maroon cloth, gold stamped small folio, gilt.( some light edgewear). Unpaginated, 115 photographs, most full-page, 85pp. text, one in-text map showing the route of the railroad. Special numbered deluxe issue for presentation, with the recipient's name in autograph, with compliments of the railroad. This unusual and most remarkable album amounts to what can honestly be described as an extensive visual history of the development of the Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway System, with much material on the region through which it passed, including photographs of people, their industries, the immense natural resources available to them, the construction of dams and canals, farming, mining, ranching, lumbering, etc. The text and captions emphasize the prospects for further development, with much important information, both textual and visual, on Laramie, Steamboat Springs, Hayden, Vernal, Meeker, etc. Not in Graff or Howes.
  • Bookseller Michael Ginsberg Books US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Tudor Press
  • Place of Publication Boston
  • Date Published [ca.1910]
  • Keywords Wyoming; transportation; ECONOMICS; WESTERN AMERICANA; PHOTOGRAPHY

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LARAMIE, HAHNS PEAK AND PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM. THE DIRECT GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN WYOMING, NORTHERN...

LARAMIE, HAHNS PEAK AND PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM. THE DIRECT GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN WYOMING, NORTHERN COLORADO, AND EASTERN UTAH

by LARAMIE, HAHNS PEAK & PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM

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[Boston: Tudor Press, n. d. (ca 1910)., 1910. First edition. First and only edition. A special, deluxe limited edition for presentation, this being copy no. 479. Original, oblong maroon boards with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover, decorated front and rear endpapers, n. p. [210 pp.], 115 full-page photographs, 85 pages of text, one in-text map showing the route of the railroad, and an elephant folio map, coded in color showing the route from Laramie to Coalmont, laid-in the front of the volume. The large folding map measures 65.4 x 90 cm [25 3/4" x 35 1/2"] with a scale of about 14 miles for 1 inch. This largely and handsomely produced volume was likely published for the purpose of luring potential investors into view the Company's operations. Having also the recipient's name in autograph and presented with the compliments of the railroad. This unusual and most remarkable album amounts to what can honestly be described as an extensive visual history of the development of… Read More
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