Research Catalog

Title

Colton's traveler and tourist's guide-book through the western states and territories, containing brief descriptions of each, with the routes and distances on the great lines of travel. Accompanied by a map, exhibiting the township lines of the U.S. surveys, the boundaries of counties, position of cities, villages, settlements, etc.

Author

Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893.

Publication

New York, J.H. Colton and Company, 1857.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin)
• Fisher, Richard Swainson.

Description

6, [vii]-xii, [13], 148 p., 1 leaf. fold. map.; 15 cm.

Subjects

• Northwest, Old > Guidebooks
• Mississippi River Valley > Guidebooks
• Minnesota > Description and travel

Note

• Map by J.C. Smith.
• Includes the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, and the territories of Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska.
• Based in part upon an earlier work: The western tourist, or Emigrant's guide, New York.
• "The territory of Minnesota": p. 53-58.

Call Number

KNE (Colton, J. H. Colton's traveler and tourist's guide-book. 1857)

OCLC

20582204

Author

Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893.

Title

Colton's traveler and tourist's guide-book through the western states and territories, containing brief descriptions of each, with the routes and distances on the great lines of travel. Accompanied by a map, exhibiting the township lines of the U.S. surveys, the boundaries of counties, position of cities, villages, settlements, etc.

Imprint

New York, J.H. Colton and Company, 1857.

Added Author

Smith, J. Calvin (John Calvin)

Fisher, Richard Swainson.

Research Call Number

KNE (Colton, J. H. Colton's traveler and tourist's guide-book. 1857)