This booklet lists two dozen conventions and festivals that were scheduled to take place in Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma (plus two in Los Angeles) in 1909, from the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition to the Western Bowling Congress. To encourage convention-goers to visit other parts of the Northwest, the booklet also lists dozens of hotels in 29 Northwest cities.

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The back cover notes that NP in 1909 offered three transcontinental trains a day: The all-Pullman North Coast Limited (#1 & 2, “only 72 hours enroute” from Seattle to Chicago), the Northern Pacific Express (#3 & 4), and, in honor of the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo, the Exposition Special (#5 & 6). The booklet also mentions the Missouri River-Puget Sound Express (#15 & 16), which went over the Burlington between Kansas City and Billings and Northern Pacific between Billings and Seattle.

“The through sleeping cars between the East and Portland, will be operated this season over the new Spokane, Portland & Seattle line, along the north bank of the Columbia river,” the back cover also notes, “a trip unsurpassed anywhere in point of scenic attractions.” This booklet is courtesy of the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection.