The rare, profusely illustrated panoramic fold-out pocket map with boards displays related advertising and timetables along with the following interesting text: This Great Overland Route is composed of three great Pacific railroads between San Francisco and Chicago, namely, Central Pacific, Union Pacific, and Chicago Rock Island and Pacific. The east end of the line known as the Rock Island Route or Omaha Short Line passes through Des Moines, capital of the flourishing Prairie state of Iowa. Some of the finest Prairie scene reviews in the western states can be had between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

The track being steel is extremely smooth and tourists are often seen in the magnificent Palace Cars of this company writing full notes in their diary placed upon a table conveniently arranged before them.

In order to secure all of the combined comforts of the overland trip, when securing your tickets call for them via the Rock Island Route.

The numerous illustrations depict the train transiting natural wonders and man made wonders as well, along with the modern sleeping cars interiors and exteriors pictured beside vignettes depicting the frontier a quarter century earlier-like a ''Gentlemanly Conductor'' in buckskins with covered wagon, or a Native American with knife drawn captioned 'The Fellow that used to collect fare on the Overland Route in 1851.' There are wood engravings of bridges and tunnels, views of Des Moines and Chicago and much more along with the fastidiously detailed topography of the route.

The text along the top of the nearly five foot long map provides great detail like how the map below shows Steamer and Railway transit routes over half the distance around the globe-and the Regular dining stations on the Overland Route between Chicago and San Francisco in order as they occur. Bureau, Davenport, Avoca, Omaha, Fremont, Grand Island, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie, Carbon, Green River, Evanston, Ogden, Elko, battle Mountain, Humboldt, Colfax, Sacramento, Lathrop.

Many suppose that when leaving San Francisco or Omaha, they must in order to provide against actual starvation, take aboard provisions enough to last them through, the result generally is that the sleeping carriages are uncomfortably crowded with ponderous lunch baskets, and the beggars of the plains (Indians), grow fat on the stale lunches thrown from the car windows at the stations.

The condition is as shown in the images of each piece front and back. The condition is as shown in the images of each piece front and back.