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OLMSTEAD, Samuel R. The Gold Mines of Kansas and Nebraska. New York, 1859.
16o (127 x 74 mm). Folding lithographed map of the Toledo, Wabash and Great Western Rail Road Line and its connections (126 x 275 mm). Sewn in original pink printed wrappers, IN REMARKABLY FRESH CONDITION; in a tan quarter morocco folding case with a facsimile edition which prints LeRoy Hafen's notes on the book.
FIRST EDITION AND VERY RARE: this is the only copy to appear at auction since the Streeter sale in 1968. This guide, one of a handful not recorded by LeRoy Hafen in his Pike's Peak Guide Books, was apparently sponsored by the Toledo, Wabash and Great Western Railroad whose lines are described on pages 14-16 and which are depicted on the map. Olmstead was editor of the New York Sun and his introduction answers questions relating to the "new El Dorado just coming to notice on the borders of our Western civilization." He notes that the same spirit of enterprise which possessed Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh and De Soto is now inherited by the "sons of New England" who "are willing to take upon themselves the struggles and difficulties that ever attend upon the track of the pioneer." Olmstead's introduction is followed by letters or extracts from letters written in the late fall from Cherry Creek. Streeter III:2126; Wagner-Camp-Becker 337a; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 989.
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FIRST EDITION AND VERY RARE: this is the only copy to appear at auction since the Streeter sale in 1968. This guide, one of a handful not recorded by LeRoy Hafen in his Pike's Peak Guide Books, was apparently sponsored by the Toledo, Wabash and Great Western Railroad whose lines are described on pages 14-16 and which are depicted on the map. Olmstead was editor of the New York Sun and his introduction answers questions relating to the "new El Dorado just coming to notice on the borders of our Western civilization." He notes that the same spirit of enterprise which possessed Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh and De Soto is now inherited by the "sons of New England" who "are willing to take upon themselves the struggles and difficulties that ever attend upon the track of the pioneer." Olmstead's introduction is followed by letters or extracts from letters written in the late fall from Cherry Creek. Streeter III:2126; Wagner-Camp-Becker 337a; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 989.