Research Catalog

Title

Directory of the city of Council Bluffs and emigrants' guide to the gold regions of the West / W.S. Burke.

Author

Burke, W. S. (William S.)

Publication

• [Council Bluffs, Iowa] : [publisher not identified], [1866].
• Council Bluffs, Iowa : Nonpareil Printing Company, 1866.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nonpareil Printing Company, printer.

Description

8 unnumbered pages, xxiv, 32 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : map; 23 cm

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
• Internal migrants > West (U.S.) > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Prospecting > West (U.S.) > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Travel
• Council Bluffs (Iowa) > Directories
• West (U.S.) > Description and travel
• Colorado > Gold discoveries
• Platte River Valley (Neb.) > Maps
• North Platte River Valley > Maps
• Iowa
• United States, West

Genre/Form

• Directories.
• Handbooks and manuals.

Note

• Map on folded leaf has legend: North Platte route to the gold mines. Shows course of the Platte, North Platte and South Platte rivers from Council Bluffs to the "gold regions" of Colorado. Map area: 12 x 57 cm. No scale given. Six advertisements in margin above map.
• Advertisements on 8 unnumbered pages at beginning and end.

Indexed In (note)

• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition)
• Newberry Library. Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (Huntington Library copy) via Sabin Americana (Gale document number CY101391579).

Provenance (note)

• "Mr. S.G. Drake, Boston, Mass., August 1866" (inscription on front cover).

Binding (note)

• Issued in colored paper covers.
• Library copy rebound in red cloth, date stamped Oct. 25, 1954; original pink paper covers bound in.

Contents

Council Bluffs -- Inducements to settlers -- A full and reliable description of all the great routes across the plains -- Directory of the city of Council Bluffs, Iowa, for the year 1866 -- Emigrants' guide: An outfit -- The emigrants' guide, from the Missouri River to Ft. Laramie : carefully revised by an agent on the route -- The south route from Fort Kearney: from Fort Kearney to Salt Lake, via Denver City : table of distances.

Call Number

*KSB (Council Bluffs, Iowa) (Burke, W. S. Directory)

OCLC

39324212

Author

Burke, W. S. (William S.), compiler.

Title

Directory of the city of Council Bluffs and emigrants' guide to the gold regions of the West / W.S. Burke.

Publisher

[Council Bluffs, Iowa] : [publisher not identified], [1866].

Manufacturer

Council Bluffs, Iowa : Nonpareil Printing Company, 1866.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, entry 9320

Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition) entry B984

Newberry Library. Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana, entry 487

Additional Formats

Also available online (Huntington Library copy) via Sabin Americana (Gale document number CY101391579).

Provenance

"Mr. S.G. Drake, Boston, Mass., August 1866" (inscription on front cover). NN

Binding

Issued in colored paper covers.

Library copy rebound in red cloth, date stamped Oct. 25, 1954; original pink paper covers bound in. NN

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Place of Publication

United States Iowa Council Bluffs.

Added Author

Nonpareil Printing Company, printer.

Drake, Samuel G., 1798-1875, former owner.

Research Call Number

*KSB (Council Bluffs, Iowa) (Burke, W. S. Directory)