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This map by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company features their "Golden Belt Route" from Kansas City to the "rich silver discoveries in Colorado." It advertises the "shortest and quickest, therefore the cheapest, route to Colorado." The map includes all of the counties of Kansas and eastern Colorado and most of the cities, towns and communities.
Creator: Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Date: Between 1865 and 1880
Item Number: 214196
Call Number: Box 3 Folder 8 (K Port 385 Un3)
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214196
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related
Business and Industry - Railroad - Advertising
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Business and Industry - Railroad - Immigration promotion
Business and Industry - Railroad - Land sales
Business and Industry - Railroad - Passenger trains
Business and Industry - Railroad - Tourism
Collections - Library - Railroad Ports (K Port 385)
Date - 1861-1869 - 1865
Date - 1880s - 1880
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
Places - Other States - Colorado
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Advertising
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Transportation - Railroads - Immigration promotion
Transportation - Railroads - Land sales
Transportation - Railroads - Passenger trains
Transportation - Railroads - Tourism
Type of Material - Maps
Type of Material - Printed materials - Brochures
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