[TEXANA]. The Texas and Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide Map, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET

  • Softcover
  • St. Louis, MO: The Texas Railway Guide Company, 1919
By Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, MO: The Texas Railway Guide Company, 1919. Softcover. Good. Published by The Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri, the map measures 23" x 23" (570 x 570 mm). Staining and tears along the folds, else near very good. Professionally matted and framed. WITH THE RARE BOOKLET: 8vo. 136 pp. Original self-wrappers (chipped, lower cover chipped with significant loss; textblock browned and brittle, but still SUITABLE FOR EXHIBITION AND STUDY. VERY SCARCE AND BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED RAILROAD MAP OF TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET WHICH GIVES ROUTES, OFFICIAL TIME TABLES, AND ADVERTISEMENTS FOR HOTELS, MOST OF WHICH HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. This work also includes parts of Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico. Delineated are counties, major cities, and also small cities that at one time held a prominent place along certain railroads, but has subsequently been bypassed by highways and have turned into ghost-towns.

The scale of the map is approximately 10 miles to 1/4 in. The full title of the booklet is: "Texas and Oklahoma railway and hotel official guide: containing the official time tables of all railway lines operating in Texas and Oklahoma, also useful and valuable information for the traveling public, for shippers and for railway men generally.

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Title

[TEXANA]. The Texas and Oklahoma Official Railway & Hotel Guide Map, WITH THE RARE BOOKLET

Author

Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri

Binding

Softcover

Condition

Good

Publisher

The Texas Railway Guide Company: St. Louis, MO

Date

1919


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