THE LAND OF PROMISE AND GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

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Large 8vo. (22 cm.) [11]10-92[6]p. Foreword by Caroline A. Huling. Frontispiece black and white photo of the author plus 59 other black and white captioned photos throughout and three color captioned photos on an inserted advertisement at the rear of the book for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Decorative endpapers. Gold cloth with letter in black on the front cover and with a vignette in black, red and gold of a cornucopia of fruit above which is a sunburst. Wear to the extremities with the corners just rubbed through, top and bottom of spine just barely beginning to fray, front cover vignette rubbed, covers quite soiled, all photos present and in fine condition, corner of one photo plate has a tiny chip missing with no loss to the photo, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. A journalist, court reporter, world traveler, and film maker Estelle Ryan Snyder (1874-1949), published two books, of which this is the first, the other being a book on ocean travel to Europe called The Land Across the Sea (1913). In 1910 she served as an editor for Vital Topics magazine, a short-lived Chicago publication and in 1913 was elected treasurer of the Illinois Woman?s Press Association. By 1930 she had moved to Los Angeles and a 1932 article in the Los Angeles Times announced that Snyder was speaking at a screening at a local college of a motion picture called ?Tragic Africa? which she had filmed herself. About this book: Snyder traveled to the West in 1905 under the auspices of the National Editorial Association and wrote about her observations. The book is introduced by Caroline A. Huling, a journalist and reformer who was co- founder of the Illinois Woman?s Press Association. She reports on what she saw in Oklahoma, Texas, a dip into Mexico, Arizona, California (including the Los Angeles area, San Francisco, and Sacramento), the Shasta Route, Oregon, Utah, The Lewis and Clark Exposition, and Colorado, among other places. A must have for anyone collecting early U.S. travel literature by women. NOTE: This is the original first edition published in 1905 and NOT one of the later reprints. N° de ref. del artículo 009172

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