For some reason, several railroads — including Burlington, Rio Grande, and of course NP — issued menus in the late 1930s and 1940s that required someone to glue photos on the covers. The glued-on photo on this menu shows Grand … Continue reading
Unlike many booklets about dude ranches presented here, this one doesn’t provide detailed descriptions of the various ranches. Instead, one page lists well over 100 dude ranches, fishing camps, and mountain lodges with their nearest train stations, post offices, and … Continue reading
This is part of a series of at least a dozen menus that feature a sepia-tone photograph glued on to the front cover. Most of the photos show Mount Rainier, dude ranches, or backcountry camps; so far, I haven’t found … Continue reading
“‘Keep the Key to Your City,’ cried the celebrated man” shown in the comic on the wrap-around cover of this booklet, “‘I’m far too comfortable on the North Coast Limited.’” Like the cover of yesterday’s brochure, this one is by … Continue reading
This six-panel brochure encouraging people to take the Northern Pacific “to or from California” is rare in that it promotes the “all-Pullman North Coast Limited.” NP made the train all-Pullman in mid-1909, then added a coach again in 1912. NP … Continue reading
This brochure describes rodeos in Bozeman and Ellensburg (both of which were on the NP main line), Coeur d’Alene (not far from the Northern Pacific station in Spokane), Cheyenne (served by Union Pacific but reachable by NP to Billings and … Continue reading
Minnesota is supposed to be the land of 10,000 lakes (in fact, there are many more), and this 1924 booklet tells how to get to many of them and to the resorts that dot their shores. “When vacation time approaches … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen several booklets about The Storied Northwest from 1922, 1923, 1927, and 1929. No doubt there were ones from the intervening years as well, but this one — based on the list of Northern Pacific agents in the … Continue reading
The 1911 entry into this series of booklets has different photos than the 1909 edition, but much of the text by Olin Wheeler remains. Unlike the 1909 edition, however, this one doesn’t credit Wheeler by name, probably because he retired … Continue reading
Instead of being about Yellowstone, Lewis & Clark, or hunting mountain goats, this 1910 Northern Pacific booklet is about the railway’s passenger trains. At the time, NP operated four daily St. Paul-Seattle trains and one train between St. Louis (via … Continue reading
