This 1937 booklet uses the words “gracious” and “luxurious” four times each with reference to the Banff Springs Hotel and Chateau Lake Louise. CP is clearly trying to convey that these are first-class operations and not rustic camps of some … Continue reading
This 94-year-old booklet has numerous black-and-white (with yellow tinting) photos of and many pages of text about Banff, Lake Louise, Yoho, and Glacier parks. A couple of pages each on hunting, fishing, and motoring around the Rockies are followed by … Continue reading
Where Santa Fe advertised that it was the “only railroad to Carlsbad,” Southern Pacific claimed in this 1941 booklet it was the “quickest way to Carlsbad.” This was because people could “arrive on a morning S.P. train, make the complete … Continue reading
This was published in 1928, the same year as, and designed similarly to, a California booklet shown here previously. This particular booklet stresses Southern Pacific’s long-term “four great scenic routes” to the Pacific Coast theme. The Overland, Golden State, and … Continue reading
This little booklet was no doubt designed to fit easily into a timetable rack and so doesn’t open out to 16″x9″ like many do. Although the booklet extols the “color and excitement” of California, it is filled with photos that … Continue reading
This 3″x5″ booklet says it was a souvenir of the Turquoise Room, the private dining room that formed a part of the dome car on the Super Chief. This car was introduced in 1950, so the booklet dates to that … Continue reading
President Coolidge declared Carlsbad Caverns a national monument in 1923 and Congress made it into a national park in 1930. I’ve been to the caverns and, while they are interesting, I suspect their year-round temperature of 56 degrees made them … Continue reading
Published by Fred Harvey with a 1911 copyright, this booklet contains 31 beautiful hand-colored photos and two paintings (including the cover) of the Southwest, which the editor apparently considered began in Colorado Springs and continued to Yosemite Park. The booklet … Continue reading
First published in 1912 (though this is the 1913 edition), this wonderful booklet was issued at the height of the Colorado & Southern’s narrow-gauge empire in Colorado. While most other Colorado booklets presented here were written by railroads that took … Continue reading
Hot Springs National Park is in a certain sense the world’s first national park, having been set aside by Congress as Hot Springs Reservation in 1832. Unlike most national parks since then, it wasn’t singled out for its outstanding scenery … Continue reading
