Colton's Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book Through the Western States and Territories; Containing Brief Descriptions of Each, with the Routes and Distances on the Great Lines of Travel. Accompanied by a Map, Exhibiting the Township Lines
Colton's Traveler and Tourist's Guide-Book Through the Western States and Territories; Containing Brief Descriptions of Each, with the Routes and Distances on the Great Lines of Travel. Accompanied by a Map, Exhibiting the Township Lines
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...are--Leavenworth City and Kansas City on the Missouri, the latter at the mouth of the Kansas, and there are several others on the Kansas. The principal military station is Fort Leavenworth, and there are others, viz., Fort Eiley, at the junction of the Eepublican Fork with the Kansas, and forts Mann and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...are--Leavenworth City and Kansas City on the Missouri, the latter at the mouth of the Kansas, and there are several others on the Kansas. The principal military station is Fort Leavenworth, and there are others, viz., Fort Eiley, at the junction of the Eepublican Fork with the Kansas, and forts Mann and Atkinson, on the Arkansas river. Kansas was originally a portion of the Louisiana purchase of 1808and subsequently a large portion of its eastern division was included in the Indian Territory. In 1854 it was erected into a separate territorial government EMIGRANT ROUTES FKOM THE SEA-PORTS TO THE WESTERN STATE8. Theee are four general routes by which emigrants are carried from the sea-board to the Western States, having their initial points at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The port of New York, being that at which emigrants are chiefly landed, demands the first notice. From this point there are several routes to the interior: 1st The Erie Railroad Route, which, commencing at Jersey City, opposite New York, passes northward through New Jersey, and then west through the southern counties of Western New York to Dunkirk, on Lake Erie, whence emigrants pass over the Lake Shore line of railroads to Cleveland. The distance from New York to Cleveland by this route is about 602 miles. 2d. The Central Railroad Route.--By this route the emigrant will go from New York to Albany by the Harlem Railroad or the Hudson River Railroad, or by steamboat on the Hudson River. The distance by these routes varies from 144 to 158 miles. Prom Albany to Buffalo, by the New York Central Railroad, the distance is 293 miles. From this point the Lake Shore line of railroads is taken to Cleveland, 1S8 miles farther, making the route from New York to Cleveland, by...
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1855, J. H. Colton and Company
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Publisher:
J. H. Colton and Company
Published:
1855
Language:
English
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Some inoffensive brown spots to map; slight use to cloth; very nice. 100 pp plus 36 pp. pub. cat. Large folding tinted map, "Guide Through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa" by J. Calvin Smith. 16mo,