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.
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.