Una Escursión (sic) al Gran Chaco. 1879.

La Provincia de Santa Fe y el Territorio del Chaco. Conferencia pronunciada en el Instituto Geográfico Argentino el 22 de Abril de 1887. Versión Taquigráfica. Imprenta, Litografía y Encuadernación de Jacobo Peuser. Buenos Aires - La Plata. 1887. 

Very rare. Quarto (22 x 15.5 cm), 28 pp., (includes Title page, blank) Modern cloth binding with gilt titles. Copy in good condition. Suarez, n. 1292. First edition.

The voice of Carrasco presents the virtues of the province of Santa Fe before the members of the Argentine Geographic Institute. Its fertile land and a determined colonization action allowed, he explains, that in less than twenty years the existing towns in its territory went from six to ninety, "in addition to twenty in formation that before very little will be as many important centers of activity ”. Alluding to these signs of progress, he also includes details about the railroad routes in the region.

Gabriel Carrasco (1854-1908) of Santa Fe origin, born in Rosario, his father Eudoro Carrasco was a journalist and founder, with Ovidio Lagos, of the newspaper La Capital in 1867, which undoubtedly influenced his intellectual formation. Gabriel graduated in Law in 1879 and would be a member of the Constituent Convention of Santa Fe and Municipal Mayor of Rosario, in addition to teaching. Already in 1862 he wrote the Annals of Rosario with his father and carried out numerous historical investigations of Santa Fe and the Northeast region. In 1888 he drafted the Urban and Rural Police Code of the Chaco Territory, whose shield he also designed. He had given lectures on the Chaco and the region in 1887 and outlined the regional development after the military campaigns of those years.