At first glance, this booklet looks like part of the same series of color-photo booklets as the Dude Ranches and Sun Valley guides. It doesn’t quite fit, however, mainly because of its size: 8-1/2″x11″ instead of 5-1/4″x7-1/2″. Inside there are … Continue reading
Since Sun Valley was, along with southern Utah, the crown jewel of Union Pacific’s tourist destinations, naturally it rated its own edition in the railroad’s expanded line of tourist guides. Not only was UP the only railroad that accessed Sun … Continue reading
When the Union Pacific introduced the color-photo format to its series of travel booklets, it added several new titles on top of its previous California/Colorado/Pacific Northwest/Yellowstone/Zion series. This 1947 booklet features western dude ranches. viagra online mastercard Trust the brand … Continue reading
This booklet doesn’t look anything like the map-on-cover guides that Union Pacific had published immediately prior to 1941. As shown below, the two-panel cover (which is actually the back cover; the front cover has a black-and-white photo of the San … Continue reading
The color-photo format suits the Southwest Utah parks well, with every photograph on the first 24 pages in color. Curiously, every photo on the remaining 20 pages is in black-and-white, which is unnecessary since nearly all of these pages were … Continue reading
Underscoring the importance of the southern Utah parks to Union Pacific, this is the only map-on-cover booklet with silver, rather than gold, printing on the cover. More important, unique among the map-on-cover booklets, this one has a full twenty true … Continue reading
This 1928 booklet exemplifies the embossed-cover series of booklets issued from about 1927 through 1931. This is one of my favorites, mainly because its bright, red cover is matched by the reds and other colors in a dozen brilliant, hand-colored … Continue reading
This flyer came with the 1962 Yellowstone booklet and was clearly updated annually. The insert describes five different possible tours, all of which took 2-1/2 days and all of which cost $56.45 (about $325 today), including bus transport, hotel rooms, … Continue reading
This 1962 update has the same cover as the 1948 Yellowstone booklet, but inside is very different. The number of color photos has been more than doubled; most of the photos have been updated; and the page count has increased. … Continue reading
The 1948 Yellowstone guide has about a dozen color photos, which is an improvement over the eight found in the 1947 Colorado booklet, but well short of the nineteen in the 1948 California booklet. Photos such as the ones of … Continue reading
