Archive.org has two copies of Olin Wheeler’s 1894 Wonderland, titled Indianland and Wonderland. Neither have covers, so I won’t try to reproduce them here. If you want one, I recommend this one, which was scanned in color instead of black … Continue reading
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For 1893, Northern Pacific handed the job of writing its annual Wonderland booklet to Olin Dunbar Wheeler. Over the next fourteen years, Wheeler would transform the series from a mere travelogue to what amounted to an annual magazine with individual … Continue reading
Although the Northern Pacific may have been progressive in hiring a woman to write its 1890 Wonderland booklet, it wasn’t progressive enough to use her travelogue for more than one year, as it had with John Hyde’s. Instead, for 1891, … Continue reading
After running John Hyde’s travelogue for five years straight with only modest changes, NP must have decided it needed something new for 1890. Hyde, who was living in Omaha, had a new neighbor named Robert Peattie, who had recently moved … Continue reading
The 1888 Wonderland booklet gives up what I suspect was the fiction that Frederick Schwatka had written the lengthy section on Alaska. In fact, the only mention of Schwatka was to note that in January 1887 he set out “on … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s booklet, this one is dated 1886. But information in the back describes the tourist season of 1887, so this one must have been published at the end of the year while yesterday’s was at the beginning. There is … Continue reading
The intrepid-looking fellow standing on the cover of Northern Pacific’s 1886 Wonderland booklet is supposed to be Frederick Schwatka, who is credited with writing more than half the booklet. As a U.S. Army lieutenant, Schwatka achieved fame for leading the … Continue reading
“This is a world of wonders!” opens this 1885 booklet. “Beyond the Great Lakes,” it continues, “lies a region which may justly be designated the Wonderland of the World.” In saying so, this booklet is referring not to Yellowstone but … Continue reading
Passengers on Great Northern trains were allowed to stopover at Glacier National Park at no extra rail fare, at least when this booklet was issued. The booklet briefly describes one- to seven-day tours people could take in the park, but … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the Dominion Atlantic Railway had been a wholly owned but independently operated subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific since 1911. The railway served Nova Scotia, which had once been occupied by French-speaking Acadians. During the French & … Continue reading