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[004969] . ADDITIONAL ESTIMATE FOR FORT KEARNEY, SOUTH PASS, AND HONEY LAKE WAGON ROAD.. ill. Tables. 1861. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Disbound. Exploration. Very Good Letter from The Acting Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting A communication from Colonel Lander in regard to the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake wagon road. 36th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 63. Includes several petitions, numerously signed by emigrants, in reference to the construction of a bridge across Green river and some of the smaller streams. Discusses Indians tribes- Snakes, Shoshocos and Pah-Utes. Tables with list of emigrants to California and Oregon with names, Number of wagons, number of persons, number os stock and Place of destination. List of those who "have travelled over the Pacific wagon road, better known as Lander's Cut-Off, and find it a very acceptable road for emigrants." And List of "emigrants from Iowa and other States to California, desire to state, for the benefit of those who may emigrate hereafter, that they travelled the road leading by Salt Lake and found it very mountainous and rough..." 27 pp. Disbound but intact. Document is clean, tight and in Very Good+ condition. Howes L57. Names in document: Moses Kelly, Acting Secretary; and F.W. Lander, Superintendent. The Lander Cutoff Trail was a shortcut for those traveling the Oregon Trail to the Pacific Northwest. It is the only wagon road of the Oregon Trail system to ever be subsidized and constructed by the federal government. $55.00

[004968] . MAPS AND REPORTS OF THE FORT KEARNEY SOUTH PASS, AND HONEY LAKE WAGON ROAD.. ill. Tables. 1861. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Disbound. Exploration. Very Good Letter from The Acting Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting Reports and maps of the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake wagon road. 36th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 64. Reports of F.W. Lander, superintendent of the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake wagon roads, for 1859 and 1860. Report includes: All lines of travel west from the South Pass; Hedspeth's road; Road from City of Rocks to Honey Lake Valley (with a 4 page Table with Travel Distances and descriptions of towns); Description of the Country north of the Emigrant Road; Facilities for roads through these mountains; Indians (Sho-sho-nees and Pah-Utah); and Minerals. Disbound but intact. Slight discoloring due to age, otherwise document in clean, tight and in Very Good+ condition. 39 pp. Howes L58 which states "only 250 copies printed. No maps accompanied this report as published" Names in document: Moses Kelly, Acting Secretary; F.W. Lander, Superintendent; J.H. Simpson, Captain Topographical Engineers; Tim. Goodale, "well-known mountaineer"; Thomas Pitt "one of the best-known conductors of trains on the continent", J. Lynde, Major 7th Infantry; and Will. H. Wagner, Engineer of Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Wagon Road. In 1857, Lander became chief engineer of the "Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Wagon Road." The wagon road's central division, also known as the Lander Trail, was an emigrant trail being built in sight of the Wind River range from South Pass, in what was then Nebraska and Oregon Territory (now Wyoming and a small portion of Idaho). $62.50

[002866] Banham, Peter Reyner. Scenes in America Deserta. Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., 1982. Desert. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0-87905-094-2. Dust jacket back inside flap torn, missing "corner" piece (approx. 1"x1 1/2") otherwise Very Good . $15.00

[002277] Carney, Otis. NEW LEASE ON LIFE, The Story Of A City Family Who Quit The Rat Race And Moved To A Ranch In Wyoming . 1971. First Edition. Autobiography. Very Good + / Good. owner's name in green ink on free endp. otherwise interior is clean, tight and VG+. Exterior is VG+. $9.50

[002137] Chittenden, Hiram Martin. THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Historical & Descriptive. 1920. Yellowstone. Good $10.00

[001011] Creasey, John.. CROFUTT'S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE, Vol. 2 - 1879-80.. ill. Engravings, Foldout Illustrations, Maps. Chicago: The Overland Publishing Company, 1879. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Blue Cloth. Early Travel Guide Book. Good Containing a condensed and authentic description of over 1200 cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts: Where to look for and hunt the Buffalo, Antelope, Deer and other game; Trout fishing, etc, etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing-where to see it- where to go-how to go-and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, Their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage. through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona. Profusely illustrated with engravings, and foldout engravings. Endpapers advertisement pages for the railroads, and Crofutt's guide book. Covers are a deep blue with title and borders embossed in black. Spine has gilt lettering. Corners and spine edges bumped and rubbed. Front and back hinge starting. Missing piece 1/"x1/2" on free endpaper near hinge. 273 pp. Annex included. 13 Time Tables. A fascinating part of the history of this country. Maps-one showing the rail and stage route. Interior is Very Good. $200.00

[004286] Dunn, Edward D.. DOUBLE-CROSSING AMERICA BY MOTOR, Routes and Ranches of the West. ill. Illus. With Drawings and Maps. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1933. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Car Narrative. Very Good- This charmingly illustrated book contains information about costs, rates and names of places to stay over night on a transcontinental trip. The book is divided into sections, each one consisting of an account of that day's trip, listing mileage, expenses, occasionally suggested reading, and highlights of the day's run. The trip takes in the charming South - Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky; the energetic Middle West - Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kanses; the romantic Southwest - Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona; the amazing state of California; a short run into Old Mexico; the Bret Harte frontier country of Nevada and Wyoming; the agricultural lands of Idaho, Dakota and Pennsylvania; a short run into Canada; and the pastoral case of upstate New York. Several ranches along the way are described. Pictorial endpapers. 251 pp. 80 illustrations and maps. Spine dulled and ends slightly rubbed. Otherwise covers are Very Good. Illustrated endpapers. Slight foxing on half title page and on blank page at back. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Bliss 58. $22.50

[003596] Henderson, C. W.. GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, AND LEAD IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING IN 1922.. ill. Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Paper Wraps. Mining. Very Good+ Mineral Resources of the United States, 1922-Part I (Pages 193-198). Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. Exterior is VG+. Interior tight, clean and VG+. Numerous Tables. I:16 $20.00

[001708] ROBBINS, Michael.. ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE : HIGH COUNTRY TRAIL . Washington, DC, U.S.A.: National Geographic Society, 1981. Fine / Very Good+. ISBN: 0870443615. $10.00

[004674] Senate. MILITARY POST NEAR SHERIDAN, WYOMING. ill. Folding Maps. 1900. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Wyoming. Very Good+ 56th Congress, 1st Session. Senate, Report No. 236. Elihu Root, Secretary of War recommending the "establishment and erection of a military post near the city of Sheridan. It is the midst of a territory surrounded by Indian reservations....The reservation of the Crow Indians is 16 miles north and the Cheyenne Reservation lies 65 miles northeast of the proposed site for this military post. There are of the former tribe 2,139 Indians, and of the latter 1,330 Indians. The Northern Cheyennes are warlike and trouble frequently arises between the settlers and this tribe..." 15 pp. 2 colored foldout maps. #1Showing Location of Sheridan, Wyoming and Surrounding Reservations, Total Number of Indians on Reservations shown 35,631 from Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Settlers within 20 miles of East Line of Big Horn Forest Reserve, 10,000.(shows 15 Indian reservations with populations) Map is 18"x14". #2. Sketch showing Pipe Line from intake to Fort McKenzie also location of two reservoir sites on Military Reserve for additional pressure, and elevations up Big Goose Creek Valley to Big Horn Mountains. Map is 18"x16". Document is disbound. 1/2" tear at top edge of first page, otherwise document is Very Good +. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Maps are Near Fine. Famous Americans in document: Elihu Root, Secretary of War; Nelson A. Miles, Major-General Commanding; G.D. Meiklejohn, Assistant Secretary of War; E.V. Sumner, Brigadier-General, U.S. Volunteers, Commanding; Binger Hermann, Commissioner; R. A. Alger, Secretary of War; William McKinley, President; and Charles F. Manderson. $50.00

[004669] Spencer Arthur C. The Copper Deposits of the Encampment District Wyoming.. ill. Plates, maps, Figures. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. Size: Approx. 8 3/4" x 11 1/2". Disbound. Wyoming. Very Good House of Representatives. 58th Congress. 2d Session. Document No. 713. Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. Professional Paper No. 25. "During the last few years prospecting in the Medicine Bow and Park ranges in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming has proved that copper-bearing minerals occur frequently and are very generally distributed over a wide region in this portion of the Rocky Mountains..." 107 pp. including Index. Two large colored foldout maps at back: Map #1-Encampment District Wyoming, Topography, 20"x15" and Map #2-Encampment District Wyoming, Geology and Structure Sections with 30 Mine locations, 22"x15". 49 illustrations. Disbound. String-tied in three places at spine. In places string is loose or unattached, but document still intact if only by one string in parts. Otherwise exterior is Very Good +. Document is clean. Interior is clean and Very Good+. $45.00