Great National Thoroughfare from the West and South-West, into New England, by the Northern, or Lake Route, from New Orleans to New York, Boston and Portland.
[Chicago? n. p.], December, 1847. First edition. 8vo, original wrappers bound into later full cloth, gilt lettering, 16 pages. An important step in the development of the Illinois Central Railroad, an early argument for the Chicago route for a railroad from Cairo to Galena, the financial (and even military) advantages..... More