PLAIN FACTS ABOUT DAKOTA. ITS FERTILE LANDS, ITS WONDERFUL CROPS, AND ITS INEXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES. 1888.
Milwaukee: Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, Printers, 1888. 32 pp. Original pink printed title wrappers [detached but present, front wrapper's upper blank corners chipped]. Rear wrapper is a "Condensed Map of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Dakota." Illustrated with 7 full-page engraved plates [including a map]. Text clean with original staple, except for a neat rubberstamp in blank margin of page [1]. Good+.
The pamphlet is actually a railroad promotional. "The Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway reaches all Prominent Points in Southern and Central Dakota." Endorsements of Dakota's wonders are printed from happy settlers. Procedures for acquiring homesteads on government lands near the Railroad's routes are explained.
Not in Eberstadt, Decker, BRE. OCLC records some institutional locations, but it is impossible to determine whether these are originals, Kirtas Technologies facsimiles, or other forms of reprints. Item #37159
Price: $350.00