?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(DAKOTA TERRITORY.) Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. Map of Dakota Drawn from Official Platsof Public Surveys, and Published in the Interests of Immigration. Lithographed map of Dakota Territory with rail lines overprinted in red and river systems in blue; verso printed with 12 promotional panels including a smaller map of the company's branches. 24 3/4x18 3/4 inches overall, folds into self-wrapping pamphlet; minor edge wear though not much of a fault. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. 1882.
"DAKOTA the Land of Promise! Could the uninformed or incredulous see it, they would realize that the promised increase of immigrations had come, and with a force having no precedent in the history of our country; nor would they wonder at the great activity and prosperity of Dakota and her people, of which and whom they know and hear so little... Like all new countries, Dakota has a good, a better and its best portion, which may be geographically assigned to its Northern, Central and Southern Divisions, but that section famously known as "The Jim River Valley", is not only an unsurpassed wheat growing land, but, beyond doubt, is the best on the globe for general farming, and now is the time to go there." OCLC locates one example, Yale.
