1869 Railroad Death Valley Grand Canyon California TRAINS Kansas Pacific Railway

William Jackson Palmer was an American civil engineer who fought in the Civil War, during which, he was promoted to Brevet Brigadier General and was a Medal of Honor recipient. Palmer helped build the Kansas Pacific Railway. He is known most notably as a co-founder of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. He was also the founder of Colorado Springs.

The Rio Grande and its successors eventually operated the largest network of narrow gauge railroad in the United States, and ultimately became part of the 21st century Union Pacific Railroad.

This “Report of Surveys” contains extremely important pieces American History. Some of the contents include: the first narrative of a white man crossing the Grand Canyon, as well as the first printed account of the California High Desert. It is among the first books to mention “Death Valley”.

Item number: #2360

Price: $499

PALMER, William Jackson

Report of surveys across the continent, in 1867-'68, on the thirty-fifth and thirty-second parallels, for a route extending the Kansas Pacific Railway to the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco and San Diego

Philadelphia : W.B. Selheimer, Printer, 1869.

Details:

•Collation: Complete with all 250 pages
oLacking folding profile and map
•Language: English
•Binding: Paper (Softcover); tight & secure
oFirst leaf loose
•Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm)
•Extremely rare

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