Over the Range to the Golden Gate. A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great North-West

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., Publishers, 1899. Cloth. Very good. [AMERICAN WEST] [RAILROADS]. 8vo; 283pp; olive cloth over board, gilt-stamped title, pictorial vignettes of the Rocky Mountains, a stream and a Native American head stamped in black on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; two ownership signatures on eps; fp; bookseller's stamp "Barkalow Bros., Union Depot. Denver Colo." on title page; illustrated throughout with lithographs from engravings; wear to boards with loss at corners, lightly age toned paper; very good. A popular and useful illustrated guidebook that takes the traveler from the Missouri River to Denver and then across the Rocky Mountains. Packed with useful information about the geography, topography, and destination cities. The indexes in the rear include Towns and Points of Interest, and Train Stations.

The title page bears the bookseller's stamp, Barkalow Bros., Union Depot, Denver, Colo. They were sellers of postcards, travel brochures and books, as well as food vendors from about 1991 to 1920 at the Union Depot.