[ATWELL, H. Wallace, compiler]. Crofutt's New Overland Tourist, and Pacific Coast Guide.
Item #4003
[282] p., 7.5"x5.25"; Black-printed & decorated orange cloth, Pullman advertising pastedowns; frontis. engraving, "Utah's Best Crop" & engraved illustrations, foldout engraved views of American Progress; Castellated Rocks, Green River, Wyoming; Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado; Boulder Canyon, Colorado; Garden of the Gods-Pike's Peak in the Distance; Steamboat Rock, Echo Canyon, Utah, U.P.R.R.; Valley of the Yellowstone; Falls of the Yellowstone; Falls of the Willamette River, Oregon; Mirror Lake and Reflections, Yo-Semite Valley, Cal.; Nevada Fall, Yo-Semite Valley, California; Summit Sierra Nevadas, Donner Lake, Snow Sheds and Tunnels; Mount Shasta, Sacramento Valley, California; State Capitol of California; The Geysers; San Francisco, The Golden Gate, and Surrounding Country, all 7.5"x9.5" printed on green paper stock. Omaha, Nebraska: Overland Publishing Company., 1880. Howes C901. Route descriptions are settlement by settlement but this wonderful compendium celebrates the development spirit of the 1870s that American historian Vernon L. Parrington described as "a great national barbecue." Front inner hinge cracked and free endpaper and possibly another leaf or two missing, otherwise all very good. |
