This booklet lists about 45 dude ranches and 13 lodges, most of which offered guide or pack services, that were located near Union Pacific tracks. Most were in Wyoming, a few in Colorad, Idaho, and Montana, one in Oregon, and two in California. Many of the lodges still exist, but most of the dude ranches did not survive the Depression, at least as dude ranches.

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Two that did were the Triangle X Ranch north of Jackson and the Elkhorn Ranch north of West Yellowstone. I’ve actually been to both ranches. Dude ranching is an interesting experience: you stay in rustic cabins that may look like they are about to fall apart and eat in a rustic dining hall that is filled with antiques. The food is great, if fattening, and the recreation activities are practically unlimited, so no one complains about the facilities.

Today is Streamliner Memories eleventh birthday. For many years, I used this day to start posting all of the Union Pacific menus I managed to collect over the previous twelve months. However, I haven’t found a new menu in more than a year, so I’m beginning to think I’ve identified them all. This is the only Union Pacific item I’ve recently collected, so tomorrow I’ll go back to posting some timetables from the Goode collection.

For what it’s worth, I’ve so far posted more than 5,400 items, including nearly 1,700 menus, 900 booklets, 550 brochures, 450 timetables, 750 postcards, and 400 blotters. Nearly 1,000 items are from the Union Pacific, 850 Canadian Pacific, more than 750 Great Northern, 440 Northern Pacific, 350 Southern Pacific, 300 Santa Fe, 250 Burlington, 250 Canadian National, 200 Rio Grande/Western Pacific, and 100 Milwaukee Road. If you’ve downloaded everything I’ve posted, it would fill close to 40 gigabytes of your computer’s memory.

I’m still adding a few items to my collection but I’m grateful to many readers for providing more items so I can keep posting daily. I hope you enjoy this virtual museum.