“The Pacific Northwest is the most amazing region of America,” opens this 52-page booklet issued at a time when the Milwaukee Road was recovering from bankruptcy. While I’m sure people in other parts of the West, not to mention Alaska, … Continue reading
This is the first edition of a booklet that we’ve seen before with a different cover and many different interior photos. The painting on the cover of this booklet was done by Leslie Ragan for the Budd Company and, while … Continue reading
This 48-page booklet is undated, but the cover highlights “The New Oriental Limited,” which dates it to 1924 or later. We’ve seen a 1927 edition of the same booklet with a color cover, so this one would have to be … Continue reading
This booklet says that California can be “reached quickly and with all the comforts of travel by the Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western Line,” which was the name of the tour company owned by the two railroads. The booklet … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s escorted tour booklets in the 1930s and 1950s are so beautiful they are almost works of art. But in the 1960s these booklets became almost boring. We’ve seen booklets like this one for 1962, 1964, and 1968, and … Continue reading
This booklet is like many others in various railroads’ dude ranch booklets: a few pages describing the pleasures of dude ranches followed by many pages offering information about individual ranches. This particular booklet lists 58 different ranches in six states. … Continue reading
Here’s a Union Pacific booklet dating from 1917. Unfortunately, it is missing the four center pages and someone ripped out half of pages 45 and 46. What’s left is 32 pages of very nice nearly-full photos with brief descriptions, plus … Continue reading
Issued by the Burlington Route in 1898, this booklet is in great shape for being more than 120 years old. It includes ten full-page photos and fourteen smaller photos or woodcuts. But most of it is text written by James … Continue reading
This booklet illustrates Glacier with a combination of color and black-and-white photos plus a centerfold map. The first several pages are devoted to the hotels — Glacier, Many Glacier, and Prince of Wales — followed by a section on tours … Continue reading
The West Coast has a “wonderful climate” and “gorgeous scenery.” But this 1934 booklet exaggerates more than a little when it says that people in Seattle “pick roses, play golf the year round.” That might be a little more accurate … Continue reading
