“Now you can reach Crater Lake by either Siskiyou Line or new Cascade Line, Shasta Route,” advises this booklet. We’ve previously seen the Maurice Logan painting on the cover (which is the back cover) on a poster. Inside are 20 … Continue reading
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In the late 1920s, the Rock Island started a Vacation Travel Service Bureau that attempted to compete with Union Pacific and Burlington’s escorted tours by offering unescorted tours whose transportation, accommodations, and meals were fully prepaid in advance. This booklet … Continue reading
The purpose of this booklet isn’t entirely clear. The main cover shown below (which, this being the Rock Island, is the back cover) is boring and uninformative. The front cover is the painting of Carriso Gorge by W.H. Bull, which … Continue reading
Rock Island faced stiff competition over all of its major routes and was at a disadvantage over most of those routes. Between Chicago and Denver it had to cover many more miles than the Burlington or UP and couldn’t compete … Continue reading
The 1949 Tropical Trips booklet has its name on both the front and back covers. While the front cover has flamingoes (which were also on the back cover of yesterday’s 1948 booklet), the back cover features flamingoes in the water … Continue reading
“Florida . . . and the Sunny South,” reads the front cover, but the real title of this booklet is on the back cover: Tropical Trips. The Atlantic Coast Line published an annual booklet of that name at least since … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a large (9-2/3″x13-1/2″) 1931 booklet encouraging people to take a seven-day tour of historic sites in Virginia and Washington DC. At 4-1/5″x7-2/3″, this undated booklet is more compact but covers the same ground. Perhaps falling into the … Continue reading
Unlike many booklets about dude ranches presented here, this one doesn’t provide detailed descriptions of the various ranches. Instead, one page lists well over 100 dude ranches, fishing camps, and mountain lodges with their nearest train stations, post offices, and … Continue reading
Minnesota is supposed to be the land of 10,000 lakes (in fact, there are many more), and this 1924 booklet tells how to get to many of them and to the resorts that dot their shores. “When vacation time approaches … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen several booklets about The Storied Northwest from 1922, 1923, 1927, and 1929. No doubt there were ones from the intervening years as well, but this one — based on the list of Northern Pacific agents in the … Continue reading