Proceeding of the Friends of a Rail-Road to San Francisco

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(RAILROADS). Proceeding of the Friends of a Rail-Road to San Francisco at Their Public Meeting, Held at the U.S. Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 1849, Including an Address to the People of the U. States; Showing that, P.P.F. Degrand's Plan Is the Only One, as yet Proposed, which Will Secure Promptly and Certainly, and by a Single Act of Legislation, the Construction of a Railroad to California, in the Shortest Time Allowed by Its Physical Obstacles. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1849. 1st ed. 24pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers separating, small chip from head of front wrapper, else very good. Graff 3365. Cowan p.513. Railway Economics p.284. Sabin 19303, lists only 4th edition. P.P. F. Degrand's plan for a transcontinental railroad, which received less attention than Asa Whitney's.

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