Highways of Colorado - Official Guide and Tour Book

A road atlas of Colorado designed for automobile drivers. Original illustrated stiff wrappers. Top and bottom of backstrip torn, otherwise excellent condition. 192 pp. with 84 uncolored maps and many photographic illustrations in the text. This was the first auto travel guide issued by a state governmental authority. Motor Age magazine for May 30, 1912: "Nearly half of the 192 pages of the book are devoted to maps, and the text pages are generaously illustrated with many of Colorado's most famous and wonderful scenes. The different routes are idnetified by the preservation of the names applied to them when they were old, historic trails." A rare and important piece of Colorado history from the earliest days of automobile travel in the American West. OCLC 18713787 (8 loc.).