SCARCE TRANS-CONTINENTAL NEWSPAPER

TRANS-CONTINENTAL NEWSPAPER. San Francisco, California. May 30, 1870. This is issue Vol. 1. No. 5. Published daily between Boston and San Francisco. Monday, May 30, 1870.

The TRANS-CONTINENTAL was a stroke of historical genius in the mind of its editor, W.R. Steele. “On May 24, 1870 over 130 passengers, most members and family of the Boston Board of Trade, boarded a beautiful eight car Pullman train built under special orders of George M. Pullman specifically for this trip, the first chartered excursion by rail from Atlantic to Pacific. On board was carried a quarto-medium Gordon Press which printed 12 issues of the trans-continental, each at a different point along the round-trip journey.” The TRANS-CONTINENTAL is considered the very first newspaper composed, printed & published on a train. This issue is the San Francisco issues, but others would be datelined Niagara Falls, Omaha, Cheyenne, Ogden, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah; Summit Sierra Nevada, Promontory Point, Utah; Laramie, Wyoming; Grand Island Nebraska, Burlington, Iowa; and Boston.

Articles include Rocky Mountain Jottings; Flora, New Ways For Old, Distinguished Guests; Sunday at Salt lake City; Our Party; Our Sabbat Service; Corinne to Sacramento. "Indians are now seen at almost every station. They are the friendly Pawnees, Bannocks and Shoshones".

Four pages (7 x 9 ¾ inches). Fabulous letter head of a steam locomotive and train with the PULLMAN PACIFIC CAR COMPANY highlighted on one car.  Quite rare and in vg cond.