The / Western Tourist / And / Emigrant`s Guide / Through The States Of / Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, / Iowa And Wisconsin / And The Territories Of / Minesota (sic), Missouri, And Nebraska / Being an Accurate and Concise Description of / Each State and Territory; / and Containing / The Routes and Distances on / The Great Lines of Travel / Accompanied With / A Large and Minute Map, Exhibiting the Township Lines of / the United States' Surveys, The Boundaries of Coun- / ties, and the Position of Cities, Villages and / Settlements, etc., etc.

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_____ Bound in original embossed brown cloth, gilt titled "Colton's / Western / Tourist / and / Emigrant's Guide.". _____ The 26 page introduction describes the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys and explains the process of the public surveys._____Pages 27 to 55 are a state-by-state guide to the region, detailing history, commercial prospects and current towns._____Pages 56 to 88 provide point-to-point distance tables for steamboats, stages, railroads and canals within each of the states._____Ends with a 34 page catalog of other mouth-watering and heart-breaking Colton cartographic offerings. _____ Mounted into the rear is a large (21 x 26"), full-color folding map._____ "Guide / Through / Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, / Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa / Showing the Township Lines of the / United States Survey / Location of Cities, Towns, Villages,._____Post Hamlets, Canals, Rail and Stage Roads / by J. Calvin Smith /./ 1855"._____ Insets of steam boat route distances effectively provide data from Buffalo to the Leavenworth Cantonment in the Kansas Territory. _____ Minnesota is spelled correctly on the map, but with a single "n" in the book's title and text. _____ "The editions from 1844 to 1856, inclusive, were issued anonymously . and are usually listed under Colton._____ The map is by Smith, however, and the title-page of the earlier editions would indicate that he was the original compiler of the work._____ It is one of the best of the early guidebooks._____The data in this book formed the basis of parts of many other guidebooks and gazetteers." --Buck/Illinois 348.____ .cf Howes3=S623(.5.1) ____Graff=3852 ____ Buck=348 _____ Lacks the front free endpaper._____ With an antique rubber-stamped accession number on the copyright page._____. N° de ref. del artículo 34835

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