Sold by William Reese Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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An apparently unrecorded Snake River Valley map and land promotional issued by the Idaho Colony Company at the turn of the 20th century. The text, filling twelve panels on the opposite side of the map, extols the virtues of southeastern Idaho for farming and livestock, and particularly its inexhaustible potential for irrigation. The large and detailed folding map is titled "South-Eastern Idaho, The Best Watered Irrigated Region in the West." It shows much of the southeastern portion of the state, with a grid overlaying the "inexhaustible" irrigated lands touted by the promotional. The map also outlines the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, with text declaring it "Reservation land soon to be thrown open." Between 1868 and 1932, the area of the Fort Hall Reservation was reduced by over two-thirds as it was "thrown open" to white settlement and development, although attempts have been made by the federal government in recent years to return some of this land to the Shoshone-Bannock tribes. The last two panels on the reverse print an advertisement and route map for the Union Pacific Overland Route, whose recent northern expansion facilitated the push for more aggressive immigration in the Snake River Valley. No copies recorded by OCLC. A rare promotional text and map from the early period of Idaho settlement and agriculture. Exterior panels slightly darkened. Some splitting along folds and at cross-folds. Good plus.
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