SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, Massachusetts, Nov. 8, 1865 

* Samuel Bowles' serialized travelogue : "Across The Continent"'

Over half of the front page is taken up with a portion of the Samuel Bowles book: "ACROSS THE CONTINENT" "Letters From Mr. Bowles--No. 29" "Our Farewell to Frisco--Dinner & Ball...A final Review of the Mining Questions...Latest News from the Mines--Copper and Quicksilver--The Petroleum Questions--Oil vs. Wine--Through the Golden Gate". Fascinating reading from just after the end of the Civil War.
Samuel Bowles was the publisher of this newspaper so this may be the only newspaper in which this serialized work appeared. It would ultimately be published as a book titled "Across the Continent" and he would later publish another: "The Switzerland of America".
Also on the front page is: "Petroleum In California".
Eight pages, some foxing at folds, very nice condition.

Background: Published on November 8, 1865, just seven months after the conclusion of the American Civil War, "Letters From Mr. Bowles—No. 29" in the Springfield Republican represents a crucial primary source capturing America’s immediate shift from war toward Western expansion, industrial resource speculation, and nation-building. Written by editor Samuel Bowles III while traveling with Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax, this serialized travelogue—later compiled into his seminal book Across the Continent—offered New England readers an influential, real-time dispatch detailing San Francisco high society ("Dinner & Ball"), early California petroleum fever ("Oil vs. Wine"), and vital mineral extraction involving copper and quicksilver through the Golden Gate. Beyond its vivid historical commentary on the post-war frontier, this November 8 issue holds unique journalistic significance as the rare, original newspaper printing from Bowles’ own press, showcasing how pioneer journalism actively shaped public fascination with the West long before the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.