Burlington, Great Northern, and Union Pacific dude ranch booklets typically included a few pages describing dude ranch vacations followed by many pages of one- or two-paragraph descriptions of all the dude ranches near each railroad’s lines. Northern Pacific did it differently, as nearly all of this booklet focuses on what a dude ranch trip is like, with a one-page table giving the name, location, rates, and “kind of place” (fishing camp, horses, etc.) for more than 80 dude ranches.
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In lieu of the one-paragraph descriptions, Northern Pacific supplemented this 1947 booklet with two-page flyers for many of the dude ranches mentioned in the booklet. Four such flyers were included with this booklet, one each for ranches near Big Timber MT, Cody WY, Ennis MT, and Helena MT. Continue reading