Steele's / Western Guide Book / And / Emigrant's Directory; / Containing Different Routes Through The States Of / New York, / Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, / Michigan, / Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota (sic), Etc., Etc._____/ With Descriptions of the / Climate, Soil, Productions, &c. / With an Appendix Containing the Routes to / Oregon and California / With Maps / Seventeenth Edition / Newly Arranged and Greatly Improved.
Published by Oliver G. Steele; Buffalo, NY; 72 pp.; ; VG; 1849/nd/17th Ed, 1849
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Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.Watermark West Rare Books
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The cover title is "Steele's / New Guide / to the / Western States / California & c.". _____ First issued in 1832, this is the 1849 edition and is considered to be the best._____ It is the first to include the appendix giving route information to Oregon and the California gold fields._____ . _____ "His short text features a superb narrative description of the overland trip from Buffalo to Sutter's Fort." --Kurutz #600 . _____ This section includes a small (4.75 x 10") folding "Map of / Routes / to / California and Oregon." It shows the Oregon, Fremont and Kearney routes from Independence to California._____ . _____ "The map of these routes could hardly have aided the Forty-niners." --Wheat/Maps #3-645. _____ Wagner-Camp #173c describes both the text and map "skeletal indeed". _____ LACKS THE LARGE FOLDING MAP of the region from Illinois to the Mandan Territory on the Missouri River originally mounted in the front. _____ The bulk of the book is a state-by-state guide to the region, detailing history, commercial prospects and current towns. _____ Pages 56 to 88 provide point-to-point distance tables for steamboats, stages, railroads and canals within each of the states. _____ The final 10 page appendix provides tables of distances within the region and of the detailed route from St. Louis to Oregon. _____ Howes3=S-937(.g)_____ Graff=3966_____ Wheat.books=196_____ Kurutz=600_____ Mintz=440 _____ Holliday=1046 _____ cf: Buck=253. _____. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Steele's / Western Guide Book / And / Emigrant's Directory; / Containing Different Routes Through The States Of / New York, / Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, / Michigan, / Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota (sic), Etc., Etc._____/ With Descriptions of the / Climate, Soil, Productions, &c. / With an Appendix Containing the Routes to / Oregon and California / With Maps / Seventeenth Edition / Newly Arranged and Greatly Improved.
- Author
- Steele, Oliver G.
- Publisher
- Oliver G. Steele; Buffalo, NY; 72 pp.; ; VG; 1849/nd/17th Ed
- Publication year
- 1849
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- .EPHEMERA, .Maps, .Western Americana
Watermark West Rare Books
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