1853 James Travelers Companion Wild West Voyages California Railroads Illustrated

A rare mid-19th-century traveler’s handbook by Stephen Massey. This book is filled with in-text illustrations guiding the reader through the United States to the Pacific coast and the American West. This book covers railroads, steamboats, and stage coach routes through the west and the south along with the distances of each route.

Massey provides a description of each town that a traveler would arrive at during their journey, and what can be expected at each location.

Item number: #1595

Price: $299

MASSEY, Stephen L.

James' travelers companion : being a complete guide through the west and south, to the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific via the railroads, lakes, rivers, canals, etc., with historical notes, statistical tables, and a vast amount of general information, with numerous illustrations : to which is added, a new and complete railroad and route book containing the principal railroad, steamboat, and stage routes in the west and south, the routes to Oregon, with their respective distances, etc. : the whole brought down to the present time

Cincinnati : J.A. & U.P. James, 1853.

Details:
•Collation complete with all pages: [x], 193, [xi], 69, [20]
oIllustrated throughout with 10 in-text engravings
•Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
•Language: English
•Size: ~6in X 4in (15cm x 10cm)

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