Our latest list is a reprise of our fourth list, published earlier this year, featuring promotional literature of the American West, encouraging settlement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. List #12 features twenty-four freshly-catalogued items ranging across the West, from California to Texas to Idaho to Nebraska and points in between. Materials include pamphlets, broadsides, an odd letter sheet from Oklahoma, and a multitude of images. Most items are either unrecorded or known in only a few copies. Enjoy!
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Whittier: Board of Trade, 1906. 16pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light soiling and wear. Published less than twenty years after Whittier was founded by Quakers, this promotional work proudly proclaims that "there is now town of its size that will rank higher in intelligence, morality, and progressiveness." Just..... More
Colorado Springs: [ca. 1900]. [5]pp. on an accordion folded sheet. Original green wrappers, printed in red. Wear and soiling, lightly creased. Contemporary notations to text. "A few matter of fact statements concerning the Solid Little City of the Cucharas Valley, with a brief description of the surrounding country." Promotional work..... More
![Item #1067 The Land of Opportunity [cover title]. Idaho](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1067.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1572285744)
[Sandpoint, Id. 1915]. [24]pp. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Internally clean. Work advertising the glories of the lumber industry for those willing to emigrate and work in the northern portion of Idaho, published by the Humbird Lumber Company. With land spread across Bonner, Boundary..... More
[Chicago & New York: Rogers and Company, ca. 1910]. [48]pp. Oblong octavo. Original dark green printed wrappers, tied with cord. Light wear and soiling, small chip to front cover. Light wear and soiling internally. Promotional work for the small town of Aurora, Nebraska, located between Kearny and Lincoln, near the..... More
Beatrice: Daily Democrat, 1888. 24pp. on a single folded sheet. Light soiling and wear, separating at central fold. Unrecorded and ephemeral promotional brochure for the tiny town of Beatrice, Nebraska, located in the southeast corner of the state. The town, founded in 1857, experienced a boom in the late-19th century..... More
Fremont: W.P. Fritz, 1905. 93,[11]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Spine lightly chipped, front cover starting, light soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. Handsome illustrated promotional work for Fremont, the most beautiful city in all Nebraska. Opening with a brief history of the town, it continues with numerous half tone..... More
![Item #894 Reno the Commercial Center of Nevada [cover title]. Nevada](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB894_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1572286004)
Reno: Nevada Printing and Stationery Co., [ca. 1905]. [4]pp. and a map, on a single folding sheet. Minor wear and soiling. Folding promotional brochure for the city of Reno, touting its location for all things business. A single panel of text by the Commercial League argues for the value of..... More
![Item #791 New Mexico, 1898. Bulletin No. 2, Agriculture and Horticulture [cover title]. New Mexico](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB791.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565781345)
Santa Fe: Territorial Bureau of Immigration, 1898. 47pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front cover detached, chipped and with small tears; small tear to rear cover. Internally clean with very minor wear. Promotional bulletin published by the Bureau of Immigration for New Mexico, touting its fine climate for farming and stock..... More
![Item #796 Farming Lands Under Irrigation. Colfax County, New Mexico [cover title]. New Mexico, Water](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB796.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567080197)
Denver: [ca. 1900]. Folding pamphlet, 8.75 x 18 inches. Light tanning. Scarce promotional pamphlet for irrigated lands north of Springer, New Mexico, in Colfax County, courtesy of the Maxwell Land Grant Company. The "Springer Ditch System" drew its water from the Cimarron River, and irrigated the southern portion of the..... More
Sioux Falls: Will A. Beach Printing Co., [ca. 1915]. Folding pamphlet, 17 x 22 inches. A couple of small chips and separations. Light tanning. Scarce South Dakota folding promotional for the southeastern portion of the state and Sanborn County in particular, sponsored by land agents Shoemaker and Hollinsworth, located in..... More
Galveston: Gustav Feist Co., 1906. [17] leaves. Original pictorial wrappers, chipped and separated along spine. Leaves evenly tanned, with an occasional fox mark. Rare photographic promotional for Galveston, Texas, published only a few years after the 1900 hurricane devastated the city. The work contains sixteen Albertypes of city views, concentrated..... More
[Texas: 1901]. Broadside, 7.25 x 8.5 inches. Text printed in two columns. Minor wear. Broadside advertising lands for sale in Pecos County, Texas. Four sections are offered, ranging from 5,200 acres to 18,560 acres, at a rate of 75 cents an acre. "The day is at hand when the cattleman..... More