Whip Catalogue From The Missoula Mercantile Company

MISSOULA MERCANTILE COMPANY

Publication: Missoula Mercantile Company, n d ca 1894, Kalispell, Montana

Oblong 8vo. Printed stapled wrappers, n. p. (8 pp. including covers), Illustrations of whips (with names such as 'Rocket,' 'Carnival,' 'Royal Rawhide' and 'Extra Java'), hickory stocks and whip lashes. Fine copy in stapled wrappers of a scarce (only 2 institutional holdings located) early undated mercantile catalog. Missoula Mercantile was one of the largest retail and wholesale operations between Seattle and Minneapolis, selling everything from groceries to wagons. Its Kalispell branch was established in 1892; by 1897, the branch employed twenty men and covered a 300-mile sales territory, delivering by train as far as Havre.