Idaho, An Intermountain Empire (United States Railroad Administration Agricultural Series No. 17)
Washington DC: U.S. Railroad Administration, c. 1919.
First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8 x 9.25 in., stapled wrappers. 35 pp, with many illustrations from photographs and a double-page map of the state. Mild vertical crease from folding. Local contact stamp of R.A. Smith (Supervisor of Agriculture, Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska) on back cover. "The purpose of this booklet is to help direct ambitious home-makers and producers to localities where they should meet with success in proportion to their resources and ability." Prepared with the assistance of 11 railroad companies (because "prosperous communities mean prosperous railroads"), the booklet includes information on the state's principal crops and yields ("Idaho has been classified by the uninformed as a mining and grazing state"), climate, roads and railroads, with short sections on each county describing geography, settlement, land values, agricultural products, etc. Scarce; 2 copies located in OCLC.
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