OFFICIAL NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL GUIDE (1894) DULUTH BUTTE SILVER MINE 74 ILLUS.

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OFFICIAL NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY GUIDE.  Presumably circa 1894, published in St. Paul, Minnesota
(for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad and its branches: containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great northwest profusely illustrated.) Though date information is lacking due to missing the title page. An interior page had 1891 as a
date.
Missing preliminary pages. Begins with page 5. Latest date found 1891 on p.26,
74 illus., 442pp., flexible shrimp cloth faded, soiled, gilt titles to upper board, spine titles dulled and faded, lower board stained, small faded stain on fore-edge affecting small marginal area of pages 305-402, interior hinges cracking, previous owner's stamp inside upper and lower boards, p. 393 torn, last blank pages missing pieces from upper edge... still solid, tight copy. Feels clean, dry and good. Complete text tight and clean, including the many full page illus. RARE
Ramon Adams - RAMPAGING HERD 1688. (Lists the 1897 edition with 442pp.)
Historic images include St. Paul, Detroit Lake, Minnesota, Plowing on a Bonanza Farm, Indian Camp, Cattle Raising in the Badlands, Driving Cattle from the Range to the Railroad, Buffalo Hunting, Ferry Over the Yellowstone, Yellowstone River and Crazy Mountains, Three Forks of the Missouri, Thlinket War Canoe, Fort Wrangell, Sitka Alaska etc.
"The Northern Pacific, which was predicted as a single line from Lake Superior to Portland, Oregon, a distance of a little over 2,000 miles, has now grown into a vast system of main line and branches, aggregating in length nearly 5,000 miles." - From the introduction.