This unusual and early road map shows a "cut off" road in red overprinting extending between El Paso and Gila Bend, Arizona. While this route would no doubt save the traveler many miles over alternative routes (which were also very primitive), it required travel over rough dirt "roads" with little signage. Staying on the correct course was no easy task, and required the traveler to stop several times "to get any information and directions from our advertisers" (no coincidence there). Complicating matters, parts of the route were "passable only certain times of the year." Surrounding the small map are various advertisements, which promoted businesses that "are guaranteed absolutely reliable, and give tourists a square deal." Published by Tillman Stout Rush with compliments of San Xavier McDonald's Kitchen in Tucson. Folds into tan paper wrappers. We found no past sales records or institutional examples for this map.

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Condition: B+

There are two short splits at the fold junctions and a bit of offsetting. Covers are lightly soiled.