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This large pamphlet has a full page map of central Kansas with Kansas Pacific Railway lands shown on one side. The reverse side contains numerous reasons to settle in The Great Wheat Region and purchase land from the Kansas Pacific Railway. There are charts showing rainfall amounts, population, elevations and the amount of various crops produced for eighteen counties in Kansas.
Creator: Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Date: July 1877
Item Number: 213435
Call Number: Port. K 385 K13 no.1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213435
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
Collections - Library - Railroad Ports (K Port 385)
Date - 1870s - 1877
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Map
Places - Counties - Clay
Places - Counties - Davis (1855-1889)
Places - Counties - Dickinson
Places - Counties - Ellis
Places - Counties - Ellsworth
Places - Counties - Kansas (1872-1883)
Places - Counties - Lincoln
Places - Counties - McPherson
Places - Counties - Morris
Places - Counties - Ottawa
Places - Counties - Riley
Places - Counties - Russell
Places - Counties - Saline
Places - Regions - Central Kansas
Transportation - Railroads - Advertising
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Kansas Pacific
Transportation - Railroads - Immigration promotion
Transportation - Railroads - Land sales
Type of Material - Maps
Type of Material - Printed materials - Pamphlets
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