The Great Northern Country.

by Great Northern Railway and Northern Steamship Company (1895)

The full title of this guide and imaginary travel tale is: The Great Northern Country, being the chronicles of the Happy Travellers Club in their pilgrimage across the American continent as traversed by the Great Northern Railway line and Northern Steamship Co. from Buffalo to the Pacific Coast. Illustrated by Blair Camera, Esq. Published under the auspices of Passenger Department.

The guide includes 180 pages of mixed text, advertisments, and photographs, plus a large map of the region served by the railroad.

This photo-illustrated traveler's narrative was published in 1895, just after the 1893 completion of the Great Northern Railway link, the second northern transcontinental rail route.  Produced by the railroad's promotional department, this book takes the reader along on a fictional ship and rail journey from Buffalo to Seattle and Vancouver.

The six fictional travelers take passage (with their new marvel, a Blair-brand camera) from Buffalo on a Northern Steamship Company Great Lakes steamer. Transiting Lakes Erie, Huron, and Superior to Duluth, they board a Great Northern Railway train for the Pacific Coast. As they pass over the Great Lakes and through the northern tier of states, their observations and encounters reveal the lands, peoples, industries, and tourist services along the way.
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