THE GREAT WEST: TRAVELLERS’, MINERS’, AND EMIGRANTS’ GUIDE AND HAND-BOOK to the Western, North-Western, and Pacific States and Territories with a Map of the Best Routes to the Gold and Silver Mines, and Complete Tables of Distances Across the American Continent

London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1867. First British Edition. Hardcover. Some loss to upper and lower sections of spine; light wear. Very Good. Pictorial stiff yellow wraps (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"); 9, xiv, 127 pages. With a large folding map of the United States, except for the lower portion of Texas, colored in outline and bound before the title page. Scarce travel guide with detailed sections on individual states, including Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Kansas, and others. One of a number of such guides published after the Civil War to provide emigrants with information on settling the West, Hall's guide was one of the most thorough with much practical information as well as descriptions of the growing towns in the Nevada territory. (Inventory #: 021893)