MINERS AND TRAVELERS' GUIDE TO OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, WYOMING, AND COLORADO. VIA THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS. ACCOMPANIED BY A GENERAL MAP OF THE MINERAL REGION OF THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
New York: Wm. M. Franklin, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. LACKS THE MAP. Octavo, 7.6 in. x 5 in., pp. 153. Contemporary brown cloth boards with frame, floral design, and textured surface decoratively stamped in blind to front and back. Gilt title to rebacked spine, with original cloth spine laid down. Light rubbing to extremities with a few modest stains to boards. Touch of spotting to preliminary and end leaves. Bright interior with supple pages. Sabin 51274. Howes M885. Good Plus. Item #87524
"John Mullan's celebrated road - a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia Rivers - established the West Point graduate as an accomplished engineer. After completing the Northwest's first engineered highway at age thirty-two, he lived for nearly another half century, a period of dynamic change. When he died in 1909, automobiles were making their initial crossings along his route. The arterial eventually became a critical link in America's longest interstate freeway, I-90." (Latah County Historical Society).
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