The Land of the Shining Mountains

The Burlington didn’t get much closer to Glacier National Park than it did to the redwoods, but at least its partner, Great Northern, did. Glacier, says the text on the back, “is a land of pagan gods and wary mountain goats, of living ice sheets moving slowly down from the heights of monster peaks and chasms and countless waterfalls.” I’ve never seen any pagan gods there, but the rest is true even if many of the glaciers have melted.

Click image to download a 942-KB PDF of this menu.

This particular menu was used for an “annual good-will tour” by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce to southern Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas in May of 1947. The unpriced menu offers a choice of a New England boiled dinner, braised short ribs, or cold meats along with soup, potatoes, spinach with egg, bread, dessert, and beverage.


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