(WEST DAKOTA TERRITORY) Union Pacific Railroad Via Omaha

Sale 2580 - Lot 258

Price Realized: $ 344

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(WEST--DAKOTA TERRITORY.) Union Pacific Railroad, Via Omaha . . . to the Gold Fields of the Black Hills. Letterpress broadside, 9 x 6 1/2 inches, signed in type by Thomas L. Kimball, General Passenger and Ticket Agent; several short closed tears with 3 tape repairs on verso, small hole in border, mount remnant in left margin, moderate edge wear. Omaha, NE, circa 1878

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Promotes the Union Pacific's lines to Colorado and the west coast generally, with an emphasis on Rocky Mountain scenery and luxury accommodations. At the peak of the Black Hills gold rush, and in the wake of Little Bighorn, they also boast of stagecoach connections "to the Gold Fields of the Black Hills" along "the only routes with Telegraph Lines . . . patronized regularly by army officers." Kimball was the ticket agent for Union Pacific from 1873 to 1879. A reference to "the Colorado Central Railroad recently completed to Cheyenne" suggests a date not long after November 1877. None traced in OCLC, at auction, or elsewhere.