Here’s an offer I haven’t seen from any other railroad: ten days of food, lodging, and horseback riding at any of six different Montana dude ranches plus sleeping-car transportation from Chicago or Minneapolis-St. Paul (but not food on the train) all for one single price. Fares ranged from $175 (from the Twin Cities) to $230 (from Chicago) depending on the accommodation: the lowest were for two people per lower berth in a tourist sleeper while the highest was for one in a Pullman lower. Multiply prices by 10 to approximate today’s dollars.
Apparently the height of romance in 1948 was to have a cowboy light your cancer stick for you. Click image to download a 2.5-MB PDF of this brochure.
The six ranches, all of which are described in Great Northern’s Dude Ranch Vacations booklet, were all located close to Glacier National Park. One has a Kalispell address; going to that one added about $2.50 to the fare. GN must have negotiated a bit with the ranchers to get them all to agree to the same price for this package. Scans of this item were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader.