Take The Chicago, Rock Island And Pacific Railroad For Peoria, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Cheyenne, Denver, Salt Lake, Ogden, White Pine, Helena, Central City, Virginia City, Sacrament And San Francisco And All Points In The Territories; China, Japan & Oregon

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad

Publication: Inter-Ocean Job Print, nd ca 1875, Chicago

14" x 27" sheet folded to 32 panels. Opens to 8-panel map and promotional text touting Utah's silver mines, cheap farms in Southern Utah and Arizona, choice lands in Iowa, and instructions to purchasers. Backed with time tables; 3 illustrations ... one of an iron bridge crossing the Missouri River at Omaha, one of an iron bridge crossing the Missouri River at Leavenworth, and one of the depot in Chicago that was rebuilt in 1872; and notes on stage lines. Fragile, worn and split on some folds. One split neatly reinforced with cellophane tape.