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This week's list features a 19th-century menu for Thanksgiving Dinner at Denver's Grand Central Hotel, a couple of nice view books, a signed Wendell Berry Broadside Poem, some compelling photography, and many other intriguing items.

The Walker House was built in 1872 and located in downtown Salt Lake City on South Main Street. It had a good reputation and attracted guests such as President Ulysses S. Grant during his 1875 tour of the west. The hotel was torn down around 1900 and replaced with the David Keith Building in 1902. Menu highlights include Pineapple Salad with Champagne Sauce, Lambs Tongue Saute a la Chasseur, and Viennoise Pudding with Brandy Sauce. On the last page of the menu is a list of train departures and arrivals, hours of meals for guests, and hours of meals for children and servants. One copy dated to 1879 at the University of Utah as of October 2021. 023260. $150

This view book depicts scenes from across Colorado including Manitou Springs, Ute Pass, Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie, the U. S. Signal Station on Pike's Peak, Royal Gorge, the Sawatch Range, Dump Mountain and Mule Shoe Curve on the Denver & Rio Grande R'Y, and a trail in the San Juan Mountains. A clean and bright copy of a 19th century view book. 023302. $195

Save for one frontispage of advertisements, the entire catalogue is comprised of sample wallpaper pages and patterned trim. The first 37 sheets have no trim samples and certainly were not produced--early samples in the book are more muted and not heavy on graphic elements. Later samples are more colorful including some extremely bright gaudy screened samples bright enough to require sunglasses. No date noted but we feel it to be from the mid 1930s. Classic item of Americana. 023259. $375

Philip R. Goodwin (September 16, 1881 - December 14, 1935) was an American commercial artist and illustrator known for his outdoor hunting and fishing scenes. He illustrated Jack London's Call of the Wild at the age of 22 in 1903. He sold his artwork to periodicals, publishers, and ammunition manufacturers, but was best known for his calendar art. Without exaggeration, it is safe to say most hunting cabins and lodges displayed Goodwin calendars. Ephemeral in nature, calendars often were thrown away at the new year hence it is difficult to find them in good condition. Goodwin's art slipped into obscurity after World War II only to be revived by the publication of Larry Len Peterson's masterful monograph "Philip R. Goodwin; America's Sporting and Wildlife Artist" published in 2001. Today, all forms of Goodwin art is collected and prized. 023238. $125

Map is quite beautiful. Includes an area from Colorado Springs on the east, Pike's Peak to the west, the famous Ute Pass (known for numerous William Henry Jackson photos) to the north and to the south a good portion of the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Railroad. Area surveyed in 1906-1907. Verso indicates this map was once property of Western Illinois University and in manuscript, twice at the top "USGS Map Pike's Peak Special (Denver)". A hard to find and aesthetically pleasing USGS topographic map. 023289. $125

The photo is a remarkable image with at least three steamboats docked in the background with large cotton bales adjacent (two of the boats are mostly obscured by the foreground image). The foreground shows a two-wheeled horse drawn cart with loaded bale(s) of cotton and an African-American man standing next to the cart. Foreground and background are mostly sharp. A tantalizing image. 023314. $125

A fun set of mounted photographs from southeastern Wyoming at the turn of the 19th century. Nine images depict the rugged mountain scenery of Sherman, Wyoming, a small town located in the Laramie Mountains. Sherman is best known for the being the summit of the original grade of the transcontinental railroad. In one image depicting the railroad tracks and station, a sign reads "Summit of the Rocky Mountains" in bold lettering. At most only a few hundred people lived in Sherman; by 1918 the railroad tracks had moved a few miles south, the railroad station closed and the town ceased to exist. Images of note include a man doing a headstand on a boulder in the middle of wilderness, a photo captioned "An unsuccessful attempt to photograph Long's Peak, sixty miles distant," the underside of the Dale Creek Bridge just west from Sherman Summit (the longest bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad), and nicest composed photograph depicts a young man, Mr. John W. Leastater or Castater, walking the railroad tracks in Ogallala, Nebraska with the photographers shadow seen in the image. A great set of 19th century photographs from along the transcontinental railroad. 023317. $750

Completed in 1907, Billings' Babcock Theatre stood four stories high, seated 1,250 guests, and was considered the finest theatre in Montana. These programs contain the weekly showings at the Babcock Theatre including stage shows and concerts. Shows found in these programs include "Marcus Loew's Empress Vaudeville", "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," "The Girl and the Tramp," "S & C Vaudeville," "The Girl in Yellow" and many, many more. Each program has many local advertisements including Merchant's National Bank, Billings Book Bindery, Glacier Water Company, the Rex Bar, Billings Laundry Company and the Luzon Café. No copies were found in OCLC or in commerce as of November 2021. 023318. $225

Following the Mexican Cession of 1848, there was strong interest in mapping the United States' newly acquired territory. In 1851, Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves, a U. S. Army officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers, led a scientific and military mission to explore the area's largest rivers and determine their navigability. The party of more than 50 people set out from Zuni Pueblo in northern New Mexico, traveled west across Arizona, and then followed the Colorado River south to California. This report to the U. S. Senate recounts the treacherous journey, interactions with Native Americans, and describes the various flora and fauna they encountered. The detailed and largely accurate map that the expedition produced is the report's most notable feature. Wagner-Camp 230: 1. Howes S-521. 023298. $500