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Kansas Pacific Baggage Tag View Watchlist >

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Kansas Pacific Railway.  Baggage tag.  Hallmarked W.W. Wilcox Chicago.  Brass tag with beautiful strong markings.  This is a very early tag as the Kansas Pacific Railway was gone by 1880.  

The Kansas Pacific Railway operated the the first long distance route across Kansas in the 1870's westward into Colorado, and it's
mainline opened up settlement into the great plains, linking Kansas City to Denver.  The line was surveyed by General William Jackson Palmer of Denver and Rio Grande Railway fame.  General Palmer would later use the southern and eastern Kansas Pacific surveys to build the narrow gauge Denver and Rio Grande Railway.  Not only was the Kansas Pacific Railway instrumental in western expansion, it also was known to transport General George Armstrong Custer and his men during the American Indian wars of the 1870's.  There is a surviving annual pass dated 1870 issued to General Custer and wife.

Anything from the Kansas Pacific Railway is rare, historical, and very desirable.

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