The 68-page Magic Yellowstone booklet of 1928 has morphed by 1938 into a 68-page Astonishing Yellowstone booklet. The essay by Emerson Hough, which filled 1-1/4 pages of the 1928 booklet, has been heavily edited so that it fits on only one page of the 1938 edition. This booklet is courtesy of NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection.

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While the booklet covers the same ground as the 1928 edition, it has been largely rewritten and supplied with all or nearly all new photos. These include two pages of photos of the Red Lodge Highway, which opened in 1937. In general, the photos take more space and the text has been edited down to take less space. In fact, while half the pages of the 1928 booklet are all or nearly all text, the 1938 edition has only seven pages that are mainly text.

We’ve also previously seen a 1939 edition of this booklet with the same cover. While the two share similar text and many photos, there are some differences, mainly in that the 1939 booklet is only 52 pages long. It partly makes up for it by printing on the inside front and back covers, which are blank in the 1938 edition.