LARAMIE HAHNS PEAK AND PACIFIC RAILWAY SYSTEM. THE DIRECT GATEWAY TO SOUTHERN WYOMING NORTHERN COLORADO AND EASTERN UTAH.
1912réf. 65871Boston: The Tudor Press n.d. but ca. 1912. Elaborate Wyoming and Colorado Railroad Promotion Printed in an unspecified number for private distribution by the company this is an elaborately printed and illustrated promotional book issued by the Laramie Hahns Peak & Pacific Railway Company. The line ran southwest from Laramie through Colorado passing through North Park Walden Hebron and Coalmont with projected extensions through Hayden Craig Meeker Grand Junction and into Utah. A prefatory note asserts that "no one connected with the work has any ambition to become a railroad king or to build up a through line with its complications and responsibilities. The builders recognize the most wonderful future in store for this particular country an are opening it up and will serve it with a local system which will assist in its acute development." The text and fine photographic views describe the agricultural and mineral potential of Wyoming northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah with descriptions of a number of towns. Included are scenes of railroad construction mining operations logging strawberry and alfalfa fields apple and peach orchards cattle and sheep dam construction and numerous town views. The partially colored folding map is drawn on a scale of approximately fourteen miles to the inch and shows an area from just west of the Great Salt Lake to just east of Denver highlighting the route of the railroad from Laramie to Coalmont and identifying deposits of oil coal iron and gold and copper; forests; and agricultural lands. Laid into this copy are two typed letters signed from bookseller Fred Rosenstock of Denver offering this copy to his customer Walter Steenstra in 1961 and attesting to the volume's scarcity. This is only the second copy we have handled. Oblong quarto. Original purple cloth gilt title on front cover. Light wear at spine ends and corners spine lightly sunned light wear and scuffing to boards. 1½-inch closed tear in upper edge of folding map. Very clean internally. Near fine. WYNAR 6652. hardcover
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