Send for a Copy of the New Pension Law. Ho! for Texas! The Lone Star State! Where Lands Are Cheaper Than in Any Other State... [printed with]: Good News for All Soldiers and Sailors! Who Have Taken a Less Amount of Land as a Homestead Prior to June 22, 1874... [caption titles]

Sioux City, 1878. Very good.. Broadsheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Minor soiling, lightly toned. Trimmed unevenly along bottom edge. Broadsheet advertising the land services of Daniel H. Talbot, a speculator and land agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. "Having but recently made a visit to the state, and with the aid of good, reliable men residing in Texas, we can inform you as near as any one can do that which you may expect to find upon a personal investigation...differing from other portions of the South, [Texas] is blessed with healthful, temperate climate, having a population composed in part of enterprising settlers from all portions of the Northern states. Texas, unlike the old Southern states, is progressive, and is rapidly taking her place among the more advanced states of the Union." The verso offers to make advances on veteran homestead claims, paying cash for claims. Talbot was a land speculator who moved to Sioux City in 1870, where he invested heavily in the area and surrounds, though he lost his fortune in the Panic of 1893. Rare and ephemeral -- we locate two copies in OCLC, at Yale and SMU.