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Title: Across the Continent! Programme of a Grand Excursion to Colorado, New Mexico and California, Under Personal Escort, Passing through Nineteen Great States and Territories . . . Fifty-Five Days' Tour Comprising nearly 9,000 miles of first-class travel by trains of Pullman, Wagner and Silver Palace Cars. For Only $450.00, Supplemental Excursion to the Yosemite Valley and Grove of Big Trees. Author: ** Place: New York Publisher: Thos. Cook & Son Date: (1882) Description: (62) pp. Double-page frontispiece map. 17x11.5 cm. (6¾x4½"), original pictorial wrappers. First Edition. Prospectus for a luxury tour planned and escorted by Cook's Tours, taking advantage of the newly completed Southern Pacific Railroad to offer a looped route to trans-continental tourists: out and back on the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. 1882 also saw Cook's first round-the-world tours. Lot Amendments Condition: Front wrapper beginning to separate from spine, faint soiling to wrappers; else fine. Item number: 227526