Item #847 1894. Half Rate. 1894. Home Seekers' Excursions to South Missouri, the Land of Big Red Apples [caption title]. Missouri, Fort Scott Kansas City, Memphis R. R.

1894. Half Rate. 1894. Home Seekers' Excursions to South Missouri, the Land of Big Red Apples [caption title]

Kansas City, Mo. 1894. Broadside, 22 x 6.5 inches. Light wear and old folds. Very good. Item #847

Broadside advertising the services of ticket agent J.E. Lockwood in Kansas City, Missouri, offering tickets "of all lines in Kansas and Nebraska, in connection with the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis R.R." The railroad, consolidated in 1888, covered southern Missouri and Arkansas, and was known as the Memphis Route; in 1901 it was subsumed by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company. The present broadside advertises the railroad's services through the region, encouraging emigration to the Ozarks. Not recorded in OCLC.

Price: $500.00