This folding map and timetable was published for the Missouri Pacific Railway, which included the lines of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas; St. Louis, Iron Mountains and Southern, International and Great Northern, Central Branch of the Union Pacific, and several more. The major routes originate in St. Louis and travel westward though Missouri and Kansas and south into Indian Territory and Texas. The map shows, in small line, all railroads in the United States as well as a few steamer routes. With a nice agriculture-themed inset titled "Farm Scene, Southern Kansas" and another showing a "View at Galveston, Texas" with boats and a formation of ducks in the foreground. Includes an extensive timetable on verso and self-folds into pictorial wrappers. Printed by Rand McNally and dated October 1, 1888 on the rear wrapper. A nice ephemeral piece that documents the continuing westward rush during the 19th century.

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Condition: B

Issued folding with several short fold separations closed on verso with archival tape, a few short splits at the fold junctions with minor image loss, and a small abrasion along a fold in South Carolina. There are a pair of small stains along the central vertical fold and a faint dampstain at bottom right.