Union Pacific Railway Company promotional advertisement claiming Kansas to be the best place in the west to buy a grain farm, buy a stock farm, buy a sheep ranch, open a store, or practice a profession.
Date: Around 1880
Creator: Union Pacific Railway Company
Item Number: 1445
Call Number: K 917.81 mss #2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 1445
Agriculture - Crops - Wheat
Agriculture - Family farming
Agriculture - Livestock
Agriculture - Ranching
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Union Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Immigration promotion
Business and Industry - Railroad - Land sales
Collections - Library
Community Life - Community services - Airports and Railroads
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Date - 1880s - 1880
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium - Pamphlet
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Pamphlet
Places - Regions - Central Kansas
Places - Regions - Eastern Kansas
Places - Regions - Northwest Kansas
Places - Regions - Smoky Hills
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Printed materials - Pamphlets
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/1445
![Immigrants' guide to the most fertile lands of Kansas - pg. [1] cover](http://img.kansasmemory.org/thumb/d00001435.jpg)
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![Immigrants' guide to the most fertile lands of Kansas - pg. [3]](http://img.kansasmemory.org/thumb/d00001437.jpg)
![Immigrants' guide to the most fertile lands of Kansas - pg. [4]](http://img.kansasmemory.org/thumb/d00001438.jpg)
![Immigrants' guide to the most fertile lands of Kansas - pg. [5] map](http://img.kansasmemory.org/thumb/d00001439.jpg)
![Immigrants' guide to the most fertile lands of Kansas - pg. [6]](http://img.kansasmemory.org/thumb/d00001440.jpg)
