Mar 07, 2024 - Sale 2661

Sale 2661 - Lot 121

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TRUMAN, HARRY S. J.M. Lowe. The National Old Trails Road. Signed and Inscribed, "To W.H. Edwards / with kind regards / and happy memories / of the Old Trails / HarrySTruman / Independence / March 25, 1958," on the front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher's cloth, some loss to gilt titling on spine; holes at fold intersections of map mounted on rear pastedown. Revised edition. (SFC) Kansas City: J.M. Lowe, 1925; inscription: Independence, 25 March 1958
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In April of 1912, the National Old Trains Road Association was established in Kansas City to develop a U.S. national highway--the National Old Trails Road--extending from coast to coast. Judge Joseph Macaulay Lowe (1844-1926) served as its first president, followed by Harry S. Truman in 1926.