Item #14094 Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inland Passage, with A Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD WESTERN TRAVEL, Frederick Schwatka, John Hyde.
Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inland Passage, with A Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad

Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inland Passage, with A Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad

St. Paul: Chas S. Fee for the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1886.

First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 6.75 x 9.5 in, 96 pp, with color frontis map of Yellowstone National Park, engravings in the text. Side-stapled wrappers chipped at the edges, small stain on first 4 leaves, all else very good. Early Northern Pacific promotional book, with interesting descriptions of Minnesota, the Dakota Territory, Yellowstone, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, providing the traveler with a good sense of the history, scenery, and attractions of the locales traversed by the railroad. The section written by Schwatka (pp 60-96) describes Southeast Alaska. The final two pages offer prices and excursion packages for the 1887 tourist season. Arctic Bib. 7620; Smith 4840 (later edition); Tourville 4022, Wickersham 3936.

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