Chicago Magazine: The West As It Is, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1857)
Chicago Magazine: The West As It Is, vol. 1, no. 1, Mar. 1857. Chicago: John Gager & Co. for the Chicago Mechanics' Institute. The Internet Archive, archive.org/details/chicagomagazinew01chic.
What the corpus of the first Chicago Magazine holds, how its two columns were read, and what its sketch of Beloit says about Blodgett, Thibault and the Turtle village.
Transcribed page by page: 59,622 words. Each page keeps its printed page number, so every quotation on the site can be checked against it.
| Section | Pages | Words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The wrapper and 'Chicago Illustrated' — Chicago Magazine (March 1857) | 11 pages, to PDF p. 21 | 224 | For subscribers |
| The Chicago Magazine; History of Chicago, part 1 — Chicago Magazine (March 1857) | 22 pages, to PDF p. 43 / book p. 29 | 13,571 | For subscribers |
| Biographies: William B. Ogden, William H. Brown, J. Young Scammon, Charles Walker — Chicago Magazine (March 1857) | 28 pages, to PDF p. 70 / book p. 56 | 17,442 | For subscribers |
| The Astrologer; The Salt Lake Valley; Getting Ahead; A Trip to Lake Superior — Chicago Magazine (March 1857) | 18 pages, to PDF p. 87 / book p. 73 | 11,167 | For subscribers |
| Beloit, Wisconsin — Chicago Magazine (March 1857) | 8 pages, to PDF p. 94 / book p. 80 | 4,385 | For subscribers |
| The Oceanic Telegraph; The First Locomotive; Editor's Table — Chicago Magazine (March 1857) | 17 pages, to PDF p. 110 / book p. 96 | 12,833 | For subscribers |