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[Boston: Tudor Press, n. d. (ca 1910)., 1910. First edition. First and only edition. A special, deluxe limited edition for presentation, this being copy no. 479. Original, oblong maroon boards with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover, decorated front and rear endpapers, n. p. [210 pp.], 115 full-page photographs, 85 pages of text, one in-text map showing the route of the railroad, and an elephant folio map, coded in color showing the route from Laramie to Coalmont, laid-in the front of the volume. The large folding map measures 65.4 x 90 cm [25 3/4" x 35 1/2"] with a scale of about 14 miles for 1 inch. This largely and handsomely produced volume was likely published for the purpose of luring potential investors into view the Company's operations. Having also the recipient's name in autograph and presented with the compliments of the railroad. This unusual and most remarkable album amounts to what can honestly be described as an extensive visual history of the development of… Read More