Phelps's Travellers' Guide Through the United States: Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Rail-Road, Canal, and Stage and Steam-Boat Routes

Humphrey Phelps

New-York : Ensign & Thayer, 1850

1850 printing. Bound in publisher's, gilt-pictorial, red leather.  Gilt cover scene showing locomotive on top and the steam ship St. Louis on bottom. Hardcover. 14 cm. Rebacked. 70 page guide.  Complete, with large folding colored map.  Fourth edition folding pocket map that extends to the Great Plains and includes part of Texas with Indian Territory and Nebraska Territory. The map is filled with details including roads, towns and villages, railroads, rivers and much more. Delineates the Trader's Route to Santa Fe in Missouri and through the territory to the west. Names numerous Indian tribes, Burial Grounds, and trading depots. It is embellished with a surrounding border featuring finely engraved portraits of 16 famous Americans, the seals of 30 states including Texas (but not California), the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the seal of the United States. Includes the inset Map of Oregon, California & Texas at bottom.  Texas is shown in its stovepipe configuration and California occupies the entire region to its west. The southern tip of Florida and the north part of Maine are shown in insets as well.   Howes P291.  "Accompanied with a new map of the United States."