America’s Greatest Vacationland

We’ve previously seen a 1951 booklet with this same title. That one had a page or three each on Yellowstone, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and other Northwest destinations.

Click image to download a 17.9-MB PDF of this 40-page booklet.

This one is different. After six pages describing the Olympian and Milwaukee’s route to the Pacific, this booklet focused on possible tours. This includes four unescorted tours: 1) Chicago to Seattle on the Milwaukee then (after a ferry ride to Vancouver) return on the Canadian Pacific/Soo Line; 2) Chicago-Seattle on the Milwaukee, Seattle-LA on the SP, LA-Kansas City via Grand Canyon on the Santa Fe, and KC to Chicago on the Milwaukee; 3) Chicago-Seattle on the Milwaukee then return the same route; 4) Chicago-Gallatin Gateway on the Milwaukee, a tour of Yellowstone, then West Yellowstone to Salt Lake on the UP, the Royal Gorge Route to Denver, and Denver to Chicago on the UP/C&NW.

Although the tours stop at Gallatin Gateway, in a bit of a bait-and-switch, for most of the tours going to Yellowstone was an added-cost side trip. A side trip to Alaska was also mentioned as a possibility. Of course, these tours were only suggestions and tourists could vary them any way they wanted.
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The end of the booklet has two pages briefly covering escorted tours, of which there are also four: A) the same as unescorted tour 1 with a possible three-day side trip to Yellowstone; AA) the same tour with an Alaska extension; B) the same as tour 4, with a possible side trip to Rocky Mountain Park; D) Yellowstone with a return on the Cody Road, which meant taking the Burlington from Cody to Billings and, probably, the Milwaukee from Billings to Chicago.

The cost of tour 1 with a standard sleeper was $215.75. The cost of tour A, which was about the same itinerary, was $217. Both were 14 days, so the added cost of the escort was a mere $1.25. Similarly, the cost of the three-day Yellowstone side trip was $38 unescorted and $39.15 escorted while the twelve-day tour 4 was $153.20 and similar escorted tour B was $155.

The front cover, by the way, shows someone, who was probably not a Native American, wearing a Plains Indian headdress looking at Mount Rainier. Indians living near Mount Rainier wore very different clothing. I prefer the back cover, which shows an electric powered passenger train winding through Montana Canyon.


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