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[NEBRASKA]. An Act to Incorporate the Missouri River and Platte Valley Rail Road Company. By Authority. Omaha City: Sherman and Strickland, 1855.
8o (197 x 138 mm). 6 pages. Brown quarter morocco. Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate, his sale Parke-Bernet, 23 April 1968, lot 1991).
A NEBRASKA RARITY, very likely the first pamphlet printed on the permanent press of Nebraska and the first railroad item of the Territory. Streeter notes that newspaper printing on a permanent press (as opposed to the travelling press of the Mormons) began in Nebreaska in late 1854, though no book or pamphlet is recorded prior to 1855. At least three broadsides were printed in 1854.
The Missouri River and Platte Valley Rail Road is in this pamphlet "authorized and empowered to lacate [sic], construct and finally complete a railroad from the Missouri river, starting at the town of Plattsmouth to Fort Kearney, then to Fort Laramie, then to western limits of the Territory of Nebraska, upon the most eligible route, with a branch road from the mouth of the Nemeha to unite with the main track at Fort Kearney at Grand Island..." The capital stock consisted of $5 million and the company was to have fifteen directors chosen by the stockholders.
The RLG Union Catalog locates only the copy at the University of Iowa. Streeter IV:1991 (this copy); Streeter Americana Beginnings 66 (this copy).
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A NEBRASKA RARITY, very likely the first pamphlet printed on the permanent press of Nebraska and the first railroad item of the Territory. Streeter notes that newspaper printing on a permanent press (as opposed to the travelling press of the Mormons) began in Nebreaska in late 1854, though no book or pamphlet is recorded prior to 1855. At least three broadsides were printed in 1854.
The Missouri River and Platte Valley Rail Road is in this pamphlet "authorized and empowered to lacate [sic], construct and finally complete a railroad from the Missouri river, starting at the town of Plattsmouth to Fort Kearney, then to Fort Laramie, then to western limits of the Territory of Nebraska, upon the most eligible route, with a branch road from the mouth of the Nemeha to unite with the main track at Fort Kearney at Grand Island..." The capital stock consisted of $5 million and the company was to have fifteen directors chosen by the stockholders.
The RLG Union Catalog locates only the copy at the University of Iowa. Streeter IV:1991 (this copy); Streeter Americana Beginnings 66 (this copy).