Colorado And Utah Handbook For Pleasure Seekers

Burlington Route

Publication: Rand McNally, 1908, Chicago

8 7/8" x 7 3/4" in orange printed wrapper, folded vertically at center. 23 (1) pp., including cover wrapper, illustrations, map, double-column text. "The object is to tell in detail how various points of interest can be reached, how they may best be seen, and what accommodations are available." Includes information on the tabernacle in Denver, Utah's Dead Sea, camping and hunting, game and fish laws, hotel and boarding houses, the Royal Gorge, etc throughout Colorado and Utah. Heavy concentration of hotels and boarding houses along with location, name of contact, and amount per day and per week. Black and white pictures throughout include Manitou Springs, the Garden of the Gods, Organ Rock, Lizard Head, wildlife, individuals participating in various activities, Sentinel Rock, various lodges, scenery, trains, train tracks, Hell Gate Canyon, etc. Double-page system map at center showing route from Denver to Salt Lake City and from Denver to Cheyenne of Tower Lyons. 4 1/2" x 6 7/8" system map on last page showing the Burlington Route and Connecting Lines. Cover wrapper lightly soiled and with light wear to fold and spine. Very good. Light wear to lower portion of front folding panel and lightly rubbed at extremities, else very good copy.

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