ATLANTIC & PACIFIC RAILROAD, WESTERN DIVISION Bond 1880 Chartered 1866 ABNC VF++

Description

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, Western Division. Bond issued October 1, 1880.
Certificate
No. D2915
. ,000. 30-Year Bond Principal due 1910. Hand signed by company
president Thomas Nickerson
and
secretary S. W. Reynolds
. Certificate is about 9” x 13.5.” Coupons No. 2 through 60 remain attached. Black print with brown overprint.
Beautiful ABNC vignette with surveyors and track layers on a hilltop above river and valley.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company operated, in the second half of the 19th century, two disjointed sections, one in the Midwest and one in the Southwest. The goal of the Atlantic and Pacific was to eventually construct railroads connecting the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, but financial problems interfered with the accomplishment of that vision. In the late 1890s the A&P was dissolved and its railroad sections were integrated into the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad. Before its dissolution, however, the Atlantic and Pacific instigated the land grabs today associated with the checkerboard reservation, obtaining sections of acreage along proposed railway routes, with or without indigenous ascent. As the archive reveals, Pueblo resistance to railroad appropriations of their lands was bitterly litigated in territorial courts, with the railroad company "vindicating" its claims to "unearned" land grants. Despite the dissolution of the Atlantic and Pacific and its subsumption into what would become the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, the railroad companies were the harbingers of the great final thrust of Manifest Destiny and its associated rapid modernization, romantic commodification, and settler colonial domination of the Southwest.
Condition:  Very Fine++
, light folds, minor creasing, no tears, light signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
American Bank Note Company.
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