18th and 19th Century Americana from David Lesser Antiquarian Books

Item 125 is the Annual Review. History of the City of St. Louis, Commercial Statistics, improvements of the Year, and an Account of Leading Manufactories, &C, published in 1854. This is a 48-page issue (most seem to be 47) with a listing of steamboat disasters. This item includes a map of the U.S. that displays five possible railroad routes to the Pacific. They range from a route from St. Paul to near today's Seattle, to a route from New Orleans to El Paso and on to San Diego. $1,500.

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