Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands: 12,000,000 Acres Best Farming and Mineral Lands in America, for Sale by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in Tracts to Suit Purchases and at Low Prices
Omaha: Omaha Herald Steam Printing Establishment, 1870. First Edition. 44pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Original printed salmon wrappers bound in. New endsheets and pastedowns. Manuscript label to head of original cover with paper of a similar color attached to the head of the verso. Small lib. ink stamp with accompanying 'Discard' stamp to title page. Item #9707
Complete with all three maps, including the fold-out map 'Map of the Union Pacific Railroad Line in Nebraska' [19.5 cm x 56 cm] / [7.5" x 22"].
Land promotional work from the Union Pacific encouraging the settlement of three million acres of U.P. lands, that divides the available lands into three groups: agricultural lands (the first 350 miles west of the Missouri River), grazing lands (from the forks of the Platte through the Laramie Plains in Wyoming), and mineral lands (between the Black Hills and the Wasatch Mountains).
"No section of the United States furnishes facilities for grazing and stock raising, superior to Nebraska and the lands on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad. The rich bottom lands of the valleys of the Platte, Elkhorn, Loup Fork, Papillion, Maple, Shell, Logan and Pebble Creeks, Wood River, Wahoo and Big Blue, are included within these limits, and present extensive tracts of the finest meadow land in America." Eberstadt 115: 856 (later edition). Graff 4238 (later edition). Herd 2351 (later edition). Uncommon.
Price: $500.00