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Title: Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad Lands: 12,000,000 Acres Best Farming and Mineral Lands in America, for Sale by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in Tracts to Suit Purchases and at Low Prices. Author: ** Place: Omaha Publisher: Republican Steam Printing House Date: 1870 Description: 44 pp. With 3 maps, including large folding map. 23x13.5 cm. (8¾x5¾), original printed wrappers. Scarce pamphlet touting the newly accessible lands of the west, as the Union Pacific sought to turn its great investment into solid profit by selling off the lands granted them by the government in exchange for building the railroad across the continent. The frontispiece map shows the whole U.S. and its major railroad lines, including the Union Pacific and Central Pacific spanning the continent, and planned branches to Oregon and Montana; the folding map after p. 18 shows the grants along the first 200 miles of track in Nebraska; and the map on the rear wrapper show the grants between the Omaha railhead and Promontory Point, where the U.P. joined the C.P. Lot Amendments Condition: Chips and wear to wrappers with bottom front corner and portions of top edge of front wrapper lost; upper corner and fore-edge of rear wrapper also chipped; vertical crease to entire pamphlet; ink stamp and notation to upper margin of front wrapper; frontispiece map with 2 short tears at upper margin; folding map splitting at folds; good. Item number: 227501