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The Northern Pacific Railroad book collection is a collection of 12 late 19th century books about great Northern Pacific. The collection covers many details about the Famous Northern Pacific and its particularly scenic route through the north. This collection of books includes both great books detailing its history as well as tourist books produced to help promote the railroad to paying customers. The collection contains many fascinating illustrations of the railroad and the territory it traveled through.

All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. Wonderland, or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska : with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad (1888) - Hyde, John - 116 pages
2. The Northern Pacific Railroad : its land grant, resources, traffic and tributary country : valley route to the Pacific (1873) - 62 pages
3. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad (1883) - Smalley, Eugene Virgil - 484 pages
4. Guide to the Northern Pacific railroad lands in Minnesota (1872) - 52 pages
5. A ramble in wonderland : being a description of the marvelous region traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad (1892) - Guptill, Albert B. (Albert Brewer) - 119 pages
6. Northern Pacific Railroad : book of reference for the use of the directors and officers of the company (1883) - Smalley, E. V. (Eugene Virgil) - 470 pages
7. The Official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest (1894) - Riley, W. C - 466 pages
8. Transportation rules : Northern Pacific system of railroads : in effect Sept. 1883, revised May, 1886 (1886) - 127 pages
9. Grand opening of the Northern Pacific Railway : celebration at St. Paul, Minnesota, the eastern terminus, September 3rd, 1883 (1883) - Hanson, Joseph H. (Joseph Have) - 113 pages
10. The Wonderland route to the Pacific coast, 1885 (1885) - 79 pages
11. Wonderland '96: Picturing the Country the Cities the Resorts the Game Found Along the Northern Pacific (1896) - Olin Dunbar Wheeler , Frank Jay Haynes - 130 pages
12. The Pacific North-west: a guide for settlers and travelers; (1882) - 88 pages

Here are some interesting illustrations from the volumes:

This CD runs on all Windows and Macintosh computers. You must have a web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader - (available for free download if you do not have it installed on your computer.) The book index is organized in an HTML menu that is compatible with all browsers and the books themselves are in PDF format to allow them to be universally accessed. Many books on this CD are searchable and printable.