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1859 traveler’s guide to the new gold mines in Kansas and Nebraska: with a description of the shortest and most direct route from Chicago to Pike’s Peak and Cherry Creek gold mines
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c.1859
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Broadside
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Kansas; Nebraska
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Across the plains in "49"
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1910-1911
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Pamphlet
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California; Iowa; Wyoming
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Acts of incorporation, organization, and by-laws of the North Western Mining Company, Texas. Chartered by two general acts of Republic of Texas
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1846
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Pamphlet
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Texas
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Appendix to Jackson’s map of the mining districts of California…
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1851
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Rare Book
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California
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An Arizona ranger, story of the south-western solitude
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1906
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Rare Book
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Arizona; Mexico
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to his sister Loretta Steele, Rio da los Americanos]
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06 Nov 1852
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Correspondence
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California
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to R.M. Sherman of San Francisco]
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1847
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Correspondence
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California
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[Autograph letter signed, Sacramento, Calif., March 31, 1851, to his sister, Loretta Steele]
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1851
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Correspondence
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California
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Beyond the West…
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1870
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; New Mexico; Arizona; Idaho; Oregon; Utah; Nevada; California; Montana; Nebraska; Colorado; Oklahoma
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The Black Hills gold fields and how to reach them!...Cost of outfit, and full information of the country, by one who has been there
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1875
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Pamphlet
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The Dakotas
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The Black Hills news-letter and mining reporter
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1878
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Periodical
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The Dakotas
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The Black Hills of Dakota, 1881.
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1881
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Pamphlet; Directory
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The Dakotas
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The Black Hills. A minute description of the routes, scenery, soil, climate, timber, gold, geology, zoölogy, etc. With an accurate map, four sectional drawings, and ten plates from photographs, taken on the spot.
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1876
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; Nebraska; The Dakotas
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Boise City and southwestern Idaho: resources, progress and prospects: information for intending settlers / compiled under direction of the Boise City Board of Trade
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1887-1888
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Periodical
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Idaho
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The Bonanza mines of Nevada: gross frauds in the management exposed. Reply of S. P. Dewey to the misrepresentations of the Bonanza firm in their libelous publication of May 25th, 1878
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1878
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Pamphlet
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Nevada; California
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Borden’s Leadville: a treatise on Leadville, Colorado: reliable information
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1879
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Pamphlet
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Colorado
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California
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1848
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Pamphlet
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California; Oregon; New Mexico
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California 49er; travels from Perrysburg to California
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1903
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Journal
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California; Texas
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California as it is and as it may be; or, A guide to the gold region
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1849
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Rare Book
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California
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Californien – Das Neue Goldland
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1849
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Rare Book
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California
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The Centennial. v.1, no.1; Jan. 1876
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1876
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Periodical
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Colorado
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[Certificate issued to Josephine Souers for land claimed in the Kit Clayton Lode]
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1863
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Broadside
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Montana
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[Certificate of James Hamilton's claim]
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03 Aug 1860
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Broadside
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Colorado
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Cherry Creek pioneer. v.1, no.1, Apr. 23, 1851
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1853
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Periodical
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Kansas
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Cincinnati weekly gazette Vol. 68, No.8
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11 Aug 1859
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Periodical
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Ohio
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The Colorado Miner, v.3, no.27
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25 Nov 1869
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Periodical
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Colorado
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Colorado: its resources, parks, and prospects as a new field for emigration; with an account of the Trenchara and Costilla estates, in the San Luis park
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1869
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Rare Book
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Colorado
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Colton's sectional and topographical map of Colorado
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1872
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Map
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Colorado
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Commerce of the prairies, or, the journal of a Santa Fe trader: during eight expeditions across the great western prairies, and a residence of nearly nine years in northern Mexico, volume I
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1844
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Rare Book
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Mexico; New Mexico
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The Daily Colorado Times, v.1, no.140
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18 May 1867
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Periodical
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Colorado
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The Daily Mining Journal. v.3, no.34; Jan. 13, 1866
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1866
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Periodical
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Colorado
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Death valley in '49...
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1894
|
Rare Book
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California; Michigan; Wisconsin; Ohio
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Directory of the city of Council Bluffs and emigrants' guide to the gold regions of the west
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1866
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Rare Book; Directory
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Iowa; Nebraska
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Echoes from Arcadia. The story of Central City, as told by one of "The Clan"
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1903
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Rare Book
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Colorado
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Echoes of the Past
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1914
|
Rare Book
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California; Nevada; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Idaho; Wyoming; Ohio
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The emigrant's guide, to Oregon and California
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1845
|
Rare Book
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Oregon; California; Iowa; Canada
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The emigrants’ guide to California, containing every point of information for the emigrant, including routes, distances, water, grass: with a large map of routes, and profile of country, &c. with full directions for testing and assaying gold and other ores
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1849
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Pamphlet
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California; New Mexico; Kansas
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The emigrant’s guide to New Mexico, California, and Oregon: giving the different overland and sea routes compiled from reliable authorities with a map of North America
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1850
|
Rare Book
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New Mexico; California; Oregon
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Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858
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1920
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Diary; Journal
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California; New York
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First annual report of the Sonora Exploring and Mining Company, made to the stockholders
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16 Mar 1857
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Broadside
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Mexico; Colorado; Texas
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For Alaska gold fields the Kotzebue Sound Mining and Trading Co. will dispatch the fast sailing bark J.A. Falkenburg...on May 10, 1898 direct to Kotzebue Sound ...
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1898
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Broadside; Poster
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Alaska; California
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For Pike's Peak, Ho! Daily U.S. mail line through to Denver City
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1860
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Broadside
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California
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[Four maps taken from 'The central gold region. The grain, pastoral and gold regions of North America. With some new views of its physical geography; and observations on the Pacific railroad.']
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1860
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Map
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Colorado; Wyoming
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Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: an account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields and resources for colonisation
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1862
|
Rare Book
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Canada
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A frontier lady: recollections of the gold rush and early California
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1932
|
Rare Book
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California; Iowa
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The garden of the world, or the great west
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1856
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Rare Book
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Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Michigan; Wisconsin; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; Minnesota; Texas; New Mexico; Utah; Oregon; Washington; California
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The Gold Mines of Western Kansas; being a complete description of the newly discovered gold mines, different routes, camping places, tools & outfits; and containing everything important for the emigrant and miner to know
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1858
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Pamphlet
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Kansas
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Great northern route to the gold regions via the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad line and the Platte Valley Route
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1859
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Map
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Illinois; Iowa; Nebraska
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Guide to the Kansas gold mines at Pike's Peak
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1859
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Pamphlet
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Kansas; Arkansas
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Hand book to the gold fields of Nebraska and Kansas: being a complete guide to the gold regions of the north and south Platte, and Cherry Creek
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1859
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Rare Book
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Nebraska; Kansas
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Hand book to the gold fields of Nebraska and Kansas: being a complete guide to the gold regions of the north and south Platte, and Cherry Creek...
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1859
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Rare Book
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Nebraska; Kansas
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Hand-book and map to the gold region of Frazer's and Thompson's Rivers, with table of distances; to which is appended Chinook jargon-language used
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c.1858
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Pamphlet
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Canada
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Hand-book and travelers' guide of New Mexico […] for tourists, miners, capitalists and emigrants
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1881
|
Rare Book
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New Mexico; Colorado
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Headquarters, Dept. of New Mexico. Santa Fe, N.M., June 15th 1863. General orders no.15.
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15 Jun 1863
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Broadside
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New Mexico; Arizona
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Histoire de la Louisiane; volume I
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1758
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Rare Book
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Louisiana; New Mexico
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Histoire de la Louisiane; volume II
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1758
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Rare Book
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Louisiana
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Histoire de la Louisiane; volume III
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1758
|
Rare Book
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Louisiana
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History and directory of the Black Hills; containing historical sketches pertaining to the first settlement of the Black Hills, descriptions of the various cities, towns, settlements, quartz mills and mines, with a complete business directory of each locality
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1878
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Directory
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The Dakotas; Wyoming; Iowa
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History of Cheyenne and northern Wyoming: embracing the gold fields of the Black Hills, Powder River and Big Horn countries...
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1876
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Pamphlet
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Wyoming
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A history of Stockton from its organization up to the present time, including a sketch of San Joaquin County; comprising a history of the government, politics, state of society, religion, Fire department, commerce, secret societies, art, science, manufactures, agriculture... within the past thirty years
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1880
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Rare Book
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California
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Hutchings' California scenes - methods of mining
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1855
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Ephemera; Broadside
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California
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Idaho Springs; its mines and mineral waters
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1880
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Pamphlet
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Colorado
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Idaho: six months in the new gold diggings. The emigrants guide overland. Itinerary of routes, features of the country, journal of residence, etc.
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1864
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Pamphlet
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Idaho
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Idaho: six months in the new gold diggings. The emigrants guide overland. Itinerary of routes, features of the country, journal of residence, etc., etc.
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1864
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Pamphlet
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Idaho; Nebraska; Kansas
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If you are bound to go to the gold fields of the Black Hills of Dakota you must buy your tickets via the Chicago and North Western Railway...
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1877
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Map; Broadside
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Montana; The Dakotas; Wyoming; Nebraska; Wisconsin; Michigan; Iowa
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The Illustrated miners’ hand-book and guide to Pike’s Peak, with a new and reliable map, showing all the routes, and the gold regions of western Kansas and Nebraska
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1859
|
Rare Book; Directory
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Colorado; Kansas; Nebraska
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In camp and cabin: mining life and adventure, in California during 1850 and later
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c.1901
|
Rare Book
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California; Wisconsin; Mexico
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The inter-mountain district
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1887-1888
|
Map
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Washington; Oregon; California; Nevada; Utah; Idaho; Montana; Wyoming; Colorado
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James Henry Twogood papers
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1888-1910
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Correspondence; Ephemera
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Oregon; Idaho
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Journal of John Wood, as kept by him while traveling from Cincinnati to the gold diggings of California, in the spring and summer of 1850…
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1852
|
Journal
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California; Ohio
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A journal of the overland route to California! and the gold mines
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1851
|
Pamphlet; Journal
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California; Arizona; Ohio
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Journal of Samuel Rutherford Dundass...including his entire route to California, as a member of the Steubenville Company bound for San Francisco, in the year 1849
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1857
|
Journal
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California
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Journal of travels from St. Josephs to Oregon, with observations of that country, together with some description of California, its agricultural interests, and a full description of its gold mines
|
1850
|
Pamphlet; Journal
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Oregon; California
|
[Journal of a voyage from New York around the Cape to San Francisco]
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07 Oct 1852 - 07 Feb 1853
|
Journal; Ephemera
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New York; California; Mexico; Nevada; Virginia
|
The Klondyke... a complete guide to the gold fields...
|
1897
|
Rare Book
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Alaska; Canada; Pacific Northwest
|
Laws of Big Creek mining district, adopted Feb. 13th, 1864
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1864
|
Broadside
|
Nevada
|
Letters: [California], to Edward [McDonnell], 1850 Oct. 13-Nov. 25.
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13 Oct 1850 - 25 Nov 1850
|
Correspondence
|
California
|
The life and adventures of James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California
|
1870
|
Rare Book
|
California
|
Mad rush for gold in frozen North
|
1914
|
Journal
|
Alaska
|
Map illustrating the general geological features of the country West of the Mississippi River
|
1857
|
Map
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Arizona; New Mexico; Texas; California; Oklahoma; Louisiana; Mississippi; Washington; Oregon; Idaho; Montana; Wyoming; The Dakotas; Minnesota; Nebraska; Iowa; Wisconsin; Illinois; Missouri; Kansas; Arkansas; Colorado; Utah
|
Map of the Cariboo & Omenica gold fields and the routes thereto
|
1870
|
Map; Pamphlet
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Canada; Pacific Northwest
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Map of the Coeur-D'-Alene mines and vicinity: Idaho Territory
|
1884
|
Map
|
Idaho
|
Map of Colorado Territory shewing [sic]the system of parks
|
1865
|
Map
|
Colorado
|
Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe mining claims in Storey and Lyon Counties, Nevada
|
c.1875
|
Map
|
Nevada
|
Map of explorations and suveys in New Mexico and Utah
|
1860
|
Map
|
New Mexico; Utah; Arizona; Colorado
|
Map of the gold regions of California, showing the routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn &c.
|
1849
|
Map
|
California; USA
|
Map of the Nez Perces and Salmon River gold mines in Washington Territory
|
1862
|
Pamphlet; Map
|
Washington; Oregon
|
Map of southern Idaho and the adjacent regions
|
1880
|
Map
|
Idaho; Oregon; Washington; Wyoming
|
Map of the Territory of Montana
|
1865
|
Map
|
Montana
|
Map of the United States' lead mines on the upper Mississippi river drawn & published by R.W. Chandler of Galena
|
1829
|
Map
|
The West; Ohio; Illinois; Wisconsin
|
Map of the White Pine mines and the region adjacent: with an essay on the geology and vein system of the district and the character of the surrounding country, accompanied with tables of hights [sic], distances, bullion products, etc.
|
1869
|
Rare Book
|
Nevada
|
Map showing proposed military and emigrant roads to the gold fields of Montana or East Idaho
|
1864
|
Map
|
Montana; Idaho; The West
|
Miners and business men's directory, for the year commencing January 1st, 1856
|
1856
|
Directory
|
California; Mexico
|
The Miners' own book, containing correct illustrations and descriptions of the various modes of California mining, including all the improvements introduced from the earliest day to the present time
|
1858
|
Pamphlet
|
California
|
The miner's ten commandments
|
1853
|
Ephemera; Broadside
|
California
|
Miner’s guide map to Alaskan and Yukon River goldfields
|
1898
|
Map
|
Alaska; Canada
|
Mining and hunting in the Far West
|
c.1899
|
Rare Book
|
California; Idaho
|
[Mining claim, Colorado Creek]
|
1861
|
Ephemera
|
Colorado
|
[Mining claim, Colorado]
|
1860
|
Ephemera
|
Colorado
|
[Mining claim, Colorado]
|
1860
|
Ephemera; Broadside
|
Colorado
|
[Mining claim, Colorado]
|
1860
|
Broadside; Ephemera
|
Colorado
|
[Mining claim, Denver]
|
1861
|
Broadside; Ephemera
|
Idaho; Colorado
|
[Mining claim, Denver]
|
1861
|
Ephemera; Broadside
|
Idaho; Colorado
|
[Mining claim, Denver]
|
1861
|
Ephemera; Broadside
|
Idaho; Colorado
|
Mining Law of the territory of Arinona [sic]
|
1864
|
Pamphlet
|
Arizona
|
Montana and Yellowstone national park. Facts and experiences on the farming, stock raising, mining, lumbering, and other industries of Montana
|
1881
|
Rare Book
|
Montana; Wyoming
|
Mormon way-bill, to the gold mines…
|
1851
|
Pamphlet
|
Utah; California
|
The Mountain herald. v.1, no.15, Sept. 17, 1852
|
1852
|
Periodical
|
California
|
Narative [sic] of Geo. J. Kellogg from 1849 to 1915: and some history of Wisconsin since 1835
|
1914
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
Wisconsin; Illinois; Iowa; Nebraska; Colorado; Nevada; California
|
Nevada State Mining Law. An act concerning the location and possession of mining claims...
|
1866
|
Pamphlet
|
Nevada
|
New and short route open to the gold regions; Pike’s Peak and Cherry Creek and all parts of Kansas and Nebraska
|
1859
|
Broadside
|
Kansas; Nebraska; Colorado
|
New and short route to the gold mines of the Black Hills, Montana and Idaho. 400 miles of travel saved
|
1865
|
Broadside
|
Montana; Idaho
|
The new gold field! The Big Horn country looming up! An expedition going in April, 1877. An outfitting point within 150 miles! The best route, etc., via Rawlins, Wyoming Territory
|
1877
|
Poster
|
Wyoming
|
New map; Gold in the Black Hills, with explanatory notes and extracts from official reports, with laws appended upon the subject of mines and mining
|
1876
|
Pamphlet
|
The Dakotas; Wyoming
|
The new mining law of Montana Territory…
|
1864
|
Broadside
|
Montana
|
The northern route to Idaho: and the Pacific Ocean
|
1864
|
Broadside
|
Idaho; Missouri
|
Nuova California: (Statti Uniti dell'America Settentrionale)
|
1851
|
Map
|
California
|
Omaha daily Nebraskian. v.2, no. 104-105; March 31-April 1, 1863
|
1863
|
Periodical
|
Nebraska; Wyoming
|
Our new West: records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean…
|
1869
|
Rare Book
|
Colorado; Wyoming; Utah; Idaho; Montana; Nevada; California; Oregon; Washington; Arkansas; Canada
|
An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the summer of 1859
|
1860
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Kansas; Utah; California
|
Overland route to California, description of the route, via council bluffs, Iowa
|
1852
|
Pamphlet
|
California; Iowa
|
The overland stage to California: personal reminiscences and authentic history of the great overland stage line and pony express from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean
|
1901
|
Rare Book
|
California; Kansas; Colorado
|
Overland trip to California in 1850...
|
1900
|
Pamphlet
|
Ohio; Indiana; Missouri; The Dakotas; Utah; California
|
Pencil sketches of Colorado, its cities, principal towns and mountain scenery
|
1866
|
Rare Book
|
Colorado
|
"A pretty fair view of the eliphent"…
|
1960
|
Correspondence; Journal; Pamphlet
|
Illinois; California
|
Prospectors’ manual: being a full and complete history and description of the newly discovered gold mines on Granite Creek, the canyon of the Tulameen River, and other new mineral discoveries in the Similkameen country, with full instructions as how to get there...
|
1886
|
Pamphlet
|
Canada
|
Rand, McNally & Co.’s new map and guide to the Black Hills of Dakota
|
1875
|
Pamphlet; Map
|
The Dakotas; Nebraska; Minnesota; Iowa; Kansas; Colorado; Wyoming; Montana
|
Report and map of the superintendent and engineer of the Smoky Hill Expedition, together with the table of distances
|
1861
|
Rare Book
|
Kansas
|
Report from a select committee of the House of Representatives, on the overland emigration route from Minnesota to British Oregon: with an appendix
|
1858
|
Pamphlet
|
Minnesota; Canada; Oregon
|
The rocky mountain gold regions containing sketches of its history, geography, botany, geology, mineralogy and gold mines, and their present operations...
|
1861
|
Rare Book
|
|
Rocky Mountain gold reporter and Mountain City Herald
|
1859
|
Periodical
|
Colorado
|
Rocky Mountain news. The mines and miners of Kansas and Nebraska. v.1, no.20; Oct.6, 1859
|
1859
|
Periodical
|
Kansas; Nebraska; New York
|
Rocky Mountain news. v.1, no.6; June 11, 1859. Extra, Greeley’s report. The mines and miners of Kansas and Nebraska
|
1859
|
Broadside; Periodical
|
Kansas; Nebraska; Colorado
|
The routes and mineral resources of north western Canada
|
1898
|
Rare Book
|
Canada
|
S. Bloom, dealer in clothing, and Gent’s furnishing goods. General assortment of miners outfitting articles
|
|
Broadside
|
Nebraska
|
The San Francisco City Directory, by Charles P. Kimball. September 1, 1850
|
1850
|
Directory
|
California
|
Silver-seeking in the San Juan mines: Location of the silver region - how to get there - what you want, and cost of outfit - how to locate your claim, together with the mining laws of Colorado and acts of Congress relating thereto
|
1877
|
Pamphlet
|
Colorado
|
Six months in the gold mines; from a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California, 1847-8-9
|
1850
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
California
|
Sketch of part of the march & wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7: from a point on Grande River (near which the road should cross,) to the Pimo Villages where he fell into and followed the route of Gen. Kearny, down the Gila River
|
1848
|
Map
|
California; Arizona; New Mexico
|
Sketch of the quartz mining region of the Rocky Mountains. Including the adjacent country with principal roads, streams and towns.
|
1860
|
Map
|
|
Springfield mining laws. Adopted...April 13th, 1852, and revised August 11th…
|
1852
|
Broadside
|
California
|
The story of early days in the Big Bend Country: breaking trails, rush of miners, coming of cattlemen, making homes, pioneer hardships...
|
1926
|
Pamphlet
|
Canada
|
Ten thousand miles of travel, sport and adventure
|
1869
|
Rare Book
|
|
Thayer's new map of the state of Colorado completed from official surveys and explorations
|
1879
|
Map
|
Colorado
|
Thomas Jefferson Oxley letters
|
1850-1853
|
Correspondence
|
California
|
Threads of Alaskan gold
|
c.1904
|
Rare Book
|
Alaska
|
[Three maps from 'Guide to the Yukon gold fields, where they are and how to reach them']
|
1895
|
Map
|
Alaska; Canada; Pacific Northwest
|
Three weeks in the gold mines, or, Adventures with the gold diggers of California in August, 1848: together with advice to emigrants, with full instructions upon the best method of getting there, living, expenses, etc., etc., and a complete description of the country
|
1848
|
Pamphlet
|
California
|
Thrilling narrative of the adventures, sufferings and starvation of Pike's Peak gold seekers on the plains of the west in the winter and spring of 1859. By one of the survivors. Whiteside County, Illinois, 1860.
|
c.1890
|
Rare Book
|
Colorado; Kansas
|
Thrilling narrative of the adventures, sufferings and starvation of Pike’s Peak gold seekers on the plains of the West in the winter and spring of 1859
|
1860
|
Pamphlet
|
Nebraska; Kansas
|
To the Black Hills: rate bulletin no. 15
|
1878
|
Map; Broadside
|
Wisconsin; Michigan; Minnesota; Iowa; Wyoming; The Dakotas; Nebraska; Illinois
|
To the gold fields of the Black Hills!: via Omaha & Sidney, or Cheyenne: the Union Pacific R.R. offers the quickest, safest and most reliable route to the new Eldorado!
|
1877
|
Pamphlet
|
The Dakotas; Nebraska
|
Topographical map of the Reese River mines located in the vicinity of the town of Austin, Lander County, N.T.
|
1863
|
Map
|
Nevada
|
Two lectures on British Columbia
|
1868
|
Pamphlet; Broadside
|
Canada; California
|
Way-side scenes in California
|
c.1855
|
Broadside
|
California
|
Western Montana; a review of the mineral, timber and agricultural resources of the counties of Silver Bow, Jefferson, Madison, Beaverhead, Deer Lodge and Missoula, with special reference to Butte City, the greatest mining camp on earth
|
1886
|
Directory
|
Montana
|
The Western Mountaineer
|
1859
|
Periodical
|
Colorado
|
White Pine M. District
|
c.1884
|
Map
|
Nevada
|
Yukon Yesterdays. Thirty years of adventure in the Klondike…
|
1936
|
Rare Book
|
Canada
|