Fred Harvey Cowboy Menu

This children’s menu was used at the El Tovar Hotel and Bright Angel Lodge in the Grand Canyon. Although it is undated, the prices (and a menu that I’ll present tomorrow) indicate it is from about 1968.


Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu.

The menu offers six meals with names such as “Billy the Kid,” “the Lone Ranger,” “the Hopi Hoop Dancer,” and (politically incorrect today) the “Navaho Squaw.” Prices are given in coins: “3 quarters, one dime and one nickel” for “the Cowboy” and “2 quarters, 1 dime and 2 nickels” for “the Dude.” Multiply by seven to get prices in today’s coins.

While I am sure that children enjoyed playing with mask on this menu, I have to say that the cowboy featured on the cover looks pretty creepy: more like a character from a cowboy horror movie than a traditional western. Great Northern’s Rocky mask looked a lot friendlier than this cowboy.


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