NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 26, 1865  The front page has some nice heads concerning post-Civil War exploration of the West, including: "THE GREAT WEST" "Matters & Things in California" "Interesting News from the Plains" "A Journey with the Overland Dispatch" "Lively Times with the Hostile Indians" "Affairs Among the Saints in Utah" "News from the Montana Mining Region" and more.
There is also a separate article headed: "UTAH" "Politico-military Movements" "The Fall" "Immigration" "Miscellaneous" "Telegraphs" with some interesting Mormon content.
Two-thirds of the front page is taken up with Western-related content.
Eight pages, nice condition.

Background: This front page from the December 26, 1865 edition of The New York Times represents a exceptionally rare and highly significant historical artifact that captures the exact moment the United States pivoted its national consciousness from the trauma of the Civil War toward the boundless horizon of Western expansion. To find a mid-19th-century Eastern newspaper dedicating a staggering two-thirds of its front page to trans-Mississippi intelligence is remarkably uncommon for the era, reflecting an abrupt, collective shift in American capital, labor, and military might just months after Appomattox. The issue acts as a vibrant time capsule of 1865: it documents the peak of the Montana Gold Rush, the perilous reliance on the Overland Dispatch stagecoach lines before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the escalating bloodshed of the Indian Wars as veterans transitioned directly from fighting secession to battling indigenous nations. Furthermore, the detailed "Politico-military" coverage of Utah provides a rare, contemporaneous look at the acute post-war friction between the federal government and Brigham Young's Mormon territory, right as the expansion of the Pacific Telegraph line began shattering the West’s geographic isolation. Ultimately, the rarity of this publication lies in its preservation of a nation mid-breath, offering a raw, unfiltered blueprint of Manifest Destiny as it evolved from a political ideology into a chaotic, rapid reality.