Robert E 1852 1944 Strahorn (44 results)

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8vo. (9 x 6 x 3/4 inches). [i-v] vi [7-9] 10-249, [250] 251-272 (adverts). Additional ad for the Home Brewery of L. Kabis printed in gilt on the rear pastedown endpaper, a Cheyenne brewery in business from 1877 to 1880. Fourteen full-page woodcut illustrations and several in text. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front First edition in original cloth of an early history and guide to Wyoming, written by Robert Strahorn, a well-known publicist of the Gold Rush West. He traveled through the region with his wife, the writer and explorer Carrie Adell Strahorn. Beautifully illustrated, informative, and replete with period advertisements targeted to gold prospectors. Strahorn decided to write this early guide to Wyoming after witnessing the surrender of Chief Crazy Horse at Camp Robinson, Nebraska, on May 6, 1877. The sight of the storied warrior formally ending the Sioux and the Cheyennes' resistance made Strahorn "sense the oncoming tide of capital and settlers" that would now be sure to flow from the East. In the preface to the handbook, dated July 20, 1877, only two months after Crazy Horse's surrender, Strahorn explains that due to this haste "imperfection may be admitted" but time was of the essence. The composition of the book itself took place in a train car across what was then the Wyoming Territory. Strahorn, as well as being a freelance journalist, worked as a publicist for Union Pacific Railroad, traveling through the West often but with one stipulation: that his wife, Carrie Adell Strahorn, be able to accompany him. Carrie, herself a writer, details this initial writing trip through the territory, which doubled as their honeymoon, in her memoir "Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911): "It meant going the length of nearly every stage road across our great frontier many times over; into remote districts, into lonely valleys and far-reaching mountains. It meant going into hundreds of mines, computing millions of feet of timber, the number of cattle and sheep and their increase. It involved the study of the prairies and hillsides with reference to their adaptability for raising cereals and fruits; the examination of watercourses and drainage, the determination of the climatic and scenic conditions, and, in short, every factor that would make attractive and instructive reading for the home-seeker." There are three main sections of The Hand-Book of Wyoming: The Resources of Wyoming, encompassing agriculture, natural resources, and animal husbandry; Counties, Cities and Miscellaneous Information, which includes an overview of the territory's fledgling infrastructure as well as a synopsis of its laws; and The Big Horn and Black Hills Region, which deals more extensively with gold mining and Native Americans. Strahorn's handbook was a success, as Carrie wrote: "The book fell into the hands of Jay Gould, who was then the wizard of the railroad world and the live wire of the Union Pacific Company, with its rails running from Omaha to Ogden and Salt Lake City. The fancy seized Mr. Gould to have Mr. Strahorn create a literary bureau and advertising department for the Union Pacific Railway Company, and to write a similar book on all Western States and Territories." Beyond his guides, both Strahorns would play an outsize role in settling the West by founding a number of towns and helping to create the North Coast Railroad, which connected Spokane to Seattle. Of special interest are twenty pages of advertisements, including Union Pacific Railroad's "Special Notice to Gold Seekers" with rates on trips from Chicago to Deadwood and Custer City, and a Chicago Tribune ad proclaiming itself the "Leading Republican Newspaper in the United States." Sweetwater Train Line, meanwhile, invites readers to visit Yellowstone National Park, established just five years prior to publication, and the First National Bank of Cheyenne touts that it "buys and sells gold dust." Adams, Rampaging Herd, 2181, Soliday IV 7.…

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