New Rocky Mountain Tourist Arkansas Valley and San Juan Guide
Chicago, Illinois: Knight & Leonard, 1878. New Rocky Mountain Tourist Arkansas Valley and San Juan Guide--The Tour Through the grain districts of the Arkansas Valley, the sheep and cattle ranges and hunting grounds of Southwestern Kansas, to the pleasure resorts of the Rocky Mountains, the sanitariums, springs, the San Juan mines and the hunting and fishing grounds of Colorado, J.G. Pangborn, Knight and Leonard, Chicago, Illinois, 1878, Third Edition. 12 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches, 64 pp.
The wrappers of this large 1878 promotional booklet have suffered its share of abuse, but the binding remains intact and most of the interior is relatively clean. Moderate soiling to wrappers; large chips to front and back. Wrapper over spine is missing. Insect damage has left pieces missing to upper corner of last ten pages. Very slight loss of content to pages 63 and 64. Fair condition.
Regardless of condition, this large format promotional booklet remains elusive on the market. Filled with steel engravings, the Rocky Mountain Tourist was produced to attract visitors and new residents to the "wonderfully attractive country beyond the Missouri." This third edition, "far surpasses the old, while in elegance of design, in artistic beauty of engravings and in high standard of typographical excellence, it is worthy of closest comparison...Appleton's Picturesque America."
Filled with beautiful engravings and lengthy descriptions of the resources and stunning beauty of the Arkansas Valley and San Juan Mountains. Item #2182
Price: $250.00