This 20-page booklet describes six “bargain tours” to California and the Pacific Northwest (including Alaska). Budget tours that focus on Glacier, Rocky Mountain, and Yellowstone parks must be in another booklet. These exercises help you to improve sperm production as … Continue reading
This 68-page booklet describes more than twenty tours to national parks and cities in the West. Starting from Chicago, tours range from nine-day tours to Yellowstone costing (with a lower berth) about $160 (about $1,800 in today’s money) to 28-day … Continue reading
In this booklet, the Burlington Route and Santa Fe Lines combined their marketing skills to offer a three-week tour to the Southwest, California, and Colorado. Actually, the tour was mostly in the Southwest and California with only a brief stop … Continue reading
Published a year after the similarly titled Through the American Wonderland, you might expect this booklet to be a simple update of that one. In fact, the text and almost all of the photos are completely new. While chapters in … Continue reading
Dated March, 1940, this 32-page booklet has fourteen color photos and more than 80 black-and-white photos of Glacier Park, its hotels and chalets, trails, and other things to do and see in the park. The booklet is also decorated with … Continue reading
This booklet is undated and I can’t find anything that conclusively pins it to 1928. It does contain several references to 1927, including a description of Charles Lindberg’s flight over Glacier in that year, so the booklet was clearly published … Continue reading
Call of the Mountains is an early Great Northern entry into the escorted tour book genre. Its 40 pages include lengthy statements by two famous writers, six beautiful color paintings and a color centerfold relief map, and numerous black-and-white photos … Continue reading
This 1941 booklet is about the same size, uses the same paper, and employes the same red tinting of black-and-white photographs as the California Picture Book. The red works only a little better than in the California book, and probably … Continue reading
This 1938 Santa Fe booklet is not nearly as elegant as Union Pacific’s travel booklets of that era. The paper is thinner, about the same as Life magazine, and the black-and-white photos aren’t quite as crisp as in the UP … Continue reading
This is Rock Island’s 1928 entry into the Colorado travel booklet competition. The turquoise cover and theme is brilliant (though Colorado skies are no more turquoise than skies anywhere else), and the theme is continued on the inside with the … Continue reading
