Guidebook of the Western United States

I was playing around today and found out some more info on this series. I always knew there were at least 6 of them, ISU library had a bound set I've lusted after for years. Looked in a lot of used bookstores over the years, never found any USGS pubs, let alone these. anyway some fooling around at Amazon found them all available there. There is a wide selection, including new reprints from two different publishers, one in the UK and one in Poland(!), of all but the last one. there are also people selling copies of the originals as collectors items for $80 a pop! The new ones are going for about $19 (paperback) or $40 (Hardback).
The titles are:
Part A, the Northern Pacific Route (with side trip to Yellowstone Park) (1916)
Part B, the Overland Route (with side trip to Yellowstone Park)
Part C, the Santa Fe Route (with side trip to the Grand Canyon)
Part D, the Shasta Route
Part E, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Route (1922)
Part F, Southern Pacific Lines
I assume that last one is the Sunset Route.
I'm going to pick these up when I have some $$$, and have gotten caught up on the other things put on hold for the last 5+ years...
Ironically enough, Part E may wind up being the last one I buy, since I photocopied the whole thing about 8 years ago!
Would be fun to pull these out while riding Amtrak, I think, conversation starters?
AFAIK, they quit after part F and never did GN, WP or CMStP&P, at least I've never seen those anywhere.

Hank



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/14/2019 08:35PM by hank.