Item #62778 Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota. Thomas Hawley Canfield.
Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota
Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota
Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota
Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota

Life of Thomas Hawley Canfield his early efforts to open a route for the transportation of the products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads, and his connection with the early history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, from the history of the Red River Valley, North Dakota and park region of northwestern Minnesota

Burlington, Vermont: [publisher not identified, but printed in Chicago by Donohue & Henneberry], 1889. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 48; steel-engraved portrait frontispiece; text printed in double column; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover; ex-James J. Hill Library, Saint Paul, with perforated stamp at bottom margin of title page, a small rubberstamp on the last leaf of text, and accession numbers in the upper left corner of the upper cover. All else very good and sound. With James J. Hill's personal bookplate and an inscribed presentation plate by Canfield reading: "To my esteemed friend & early pioneer of the Northwest & Red River Valley, James J. Hill, Esq., St Paul, Minn. ... July 4th, 89, Tho. H. Canfield." Laid into a pocket at the back are two small pamphlets, one: Deep Waterways. Subject of a Talk at the Algonquin Club Last Evening [drop title] by Thomas H. Canfield, [1896], 16 pages, not found in OCLC, with informed annotations throughout in pencil, possibly by Canfield himself; also, In Memoriam. Thomas Hawley Canfield, [1897], 8 pages, Minnesota Historical Only in OCLC. Howes C-113. Item #62778

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