Cottonwood / Hot Springs and Sanitarium / [followed by 11 lines describing the curative powers of the waters] / ... Clear Crystal / streams and lakes abound in the vicinity, in which there is / Excellent Trout Fishing. / [followed by 8 short paragraphs containing promotional information, concerning transportation, accommodations, etc.]

Signed in type at the end: "G.B. McCampbell, / Buena Vista, Colo." Buena Vista, (CO]: Herald Print, nd [ca. 1888]. Printed broadside, 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, employing several sizes and styles of type, "Excellent Trout fishing" in mid-size, bold type. Accompanied by a two page autograph letter on Cottonwood Hot Springs Sanitarium letterhead, signed 16 October 1888, from Walter Markham to his mother in Middletown, Connecticut, concerning family matters and the possibility of investing in a local ranch. The broadside is not recorded on OCLC (the Herald began publishing in Buena Vista in 1881). Broadside browned and folded for mailing, tear in top edge (not affecting text). Very good. (3019). Item #56416

Price: $150.00