File:Due Southwest Over the Cotton Belt Route, 1891 - through fields of virgin soil - a description of the country, traversed by the 'Cotton Belt Route' from Cairo, Illinois, through Southeastern M.jpg

English: Title: Due Southwest : through fields of virgin soil : for the farmer and planter, stockman, lumberman and business man generally : a description of the country, traversed by the 'Cotton Belt Route' from Cairo, Illinois, through Southeastern Missouri and Arkansas into Texas

Creator: Unknown Contributors: St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. Date: 1891 Part Of: Due Southwest... Place: Arkansas; Illinois; Louisiana; Missouri; Texas Description: Written when Texarkana was sixteen years old, this promotional booklet describes towns along the Cotton Belt route. Portraying life along the route, sketches depict artesian wells, city and government buildings, depots, street scenes, private residences, businesses, banks, hotels, schools, churches, farms, mills, landscapes, lumber companies, manufacturing, and waterways. Lists record names of businesses, titles of illustrations, mills along the route, and names of railroad officers for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas, and the Tyler Southeastern Railway. Two maps are included, one showing the Cotton Belt route, and the other providing a bird's-eye view of Ft. Worth. Physical Description: 176 pages: illustrations, folded map; 26 x 17 cm File Name:f396_d84_1891_opt.pdf Digital Collection: Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints Rights: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University For more information, see:

digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/tex/id/2502