Idaho leedy e dwin c (1 resultados)

Two pieces. 4to. 8.25 x 11.5 in. 36; [4 pp (unpaginated).] Numerous photo illustrations, 2 maps (1 colour, 1 colour-tinted), colour photo-illustrated softcovers, cover art of lush farm w/ splendid numerous barns, cattle, and hogs; 2nd -- with numerous black & white photo illustrations, front cover of self-printed wrappers printed as if on Great Northern letterhead, w/ 2 leaves TLS from Leedy to prospective buyer, printed request form, and order form (very minor shelfwear, slight toning to fore-edges), excellent set. First editions, thus, of these land promotion advertisement brochures detailing the agricultural and farming opportunities of all the lands along the route of the Great Northern Railway in Washington State and Northern Idaho at the depths of the Great Depression. This land promotion was prepared and presenting using the statistics of the 1930 census, maps revised by the Great Northern Railway land department in 1929, and as the Great Depression began to wane, prospective homesteaders were being offered railroad fairs of 2 cents per mile. Details of the livestock and dairying possibilities in Minnesota, wheat growing in Montana, and logging opportunities, and farming in the Pacific Northwest predominate. Edwin C. Leedy (1872-1939) was a very successful land promoter and agricultural agent for the Great Northern until he retired due to ill health in Montana, 1939.…