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English: A Description of Western Texas [Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio R. R. Immigrants Guide to Western Texas]
Description
English: Galveston newspaper editor M. Whilldin's well-illustrated Immigrants' Guide is an example of a genre of ephemera widely published by railroad companies to encourage people to use their railroads. It contains a colorful chromolithographed county map of central Texas indicating the "Sun Set Route" of the Galveston Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway and thirty-two delightful lithographs of picturesque cities, towns, bridges, and landscapes along the route. The G.H. & S.A. Railway was a new name given to the old Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway Company in 1870. It reached San Antonio in February 1877 and was later acquired by the Southern Pacific Railway Company of California, which also adopted its "Sunset Route" slogan for the whole route between New Orleans and Los Angeles.
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Source UTA Libraries Cartographic Connections: map / text
Creator
M. Whilldin
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English: The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections
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Map location Texas
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 Bibliographic data
Place of publication Galveston
Publisher
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company
Printed by
"The News" Steam Book & Job Office
 Archival data
institution QS:P195,Q1230739
Dimensions height: 19 cm (7.4 in); width: 12 cm (4.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,12U174728
artwork-references

George C. Werner. Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. The Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved on August 24, 2018.

Auction 23. Dorothy Sloan Books (2018). Retrieved on September 10, 2018.

Huseman, Ben W. Charting Chartered Companies, no. 56 , p. 46


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