According to the Streamliner Memories reader who contributed this PDF, this 1924 booklet is the first of Union Pacific’s many dude ranch booklets. It is likely that UP did a new dude ranch booklet every year, except for the war years, up until 1959. This one focuses mainly on dude ranches around Yellowstone, plus a few in Wyoming’s Snowy Range, and one in central Oregon that happens to have been a few miles from where I live.
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Dude ranches continued to thrive after 1959 and many still exist today, but Union Pacific apparently decided that too few dudes were taking UP trains to justify publishing more booklets after that year. I suspect that few of the ranches in this booklet still exist; the one in central Oregon lasted only two years as a dude ranch, though it continued as a cattle ranch for many years after that. Today it is a residential subdivision. Continue reading