Burlington, Great Northern, and Union Pacific dude ranch booklets typically included a few pages describing dude ranch vacations followed by many pages of one- or two-paragraph descriptions of all the dude ranches near each railroad’s lines. Northern Pacific did it … Continue reading
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This brochure, which is clearly marked 1939, appears to be an update from an earlier brochure that I estimated was issued around 1937. The earlier brochure is titled “Through the American Rockies” while this one uses the more generic “American … Continue reading
When this brochure was published, Tacoma was the “lumber capital of America,” the “gateway to the mountain,” meaning Mount Rainier, and a “city of beautiful homes” and “fine parks.” The brochure is undated, but it cites data from 1937, so … Continue reading
Swimming, climbing, fishing, horseback riding, and indolence are featured as the main things people do on a dude ranch. When this brochure was issued, dude ranches typically cost $25 to $75 a week. Today, $100 to $200 a day is … Continue reading
Mount Baker National Forest was carved out of the Washington National Forest in 1924, and in 1927 local developers built a grand lodge that could fairly be compared with Old Faithful Inn or Glacier Park Lodge. Northern Pacific took advantage … Continue reading
This 8″-by-11″ brochure unfolds into four panels of mostly full-page or half-page photos. Just one of the eight panels (counting both sides) has a significant amount of text. Click image to download a 3.9-MB PDF of this brochure. We now … Continue reading
At first glance, this seems to be another in the series of black-and-white brochures issued by the Northern Pacific in the late 1930s, such as the ones for Portland, the Rockies, and Rivers. But this one is smaller and doesn’t … Continue reading
This eight-day, ten-night tour from Chicago (eight nights from the Twin Cities) included two nights at Glacier Park Lodge, one at Prince of Wales, two at Many Glacier, and one at Lake McDonald. The day at the Glacier Park Lodge … Continue reading
This brochure offers a sixteen-day tour of Glacier, Waterton, Banff, and Yoho national parks. The tour began with a trip on the Western Star to West Glacier and a night at the Lake McDonald Hotel. A bus trip over the … Continue reading
Like a brochure from a couple of days ago, this one suggests a twelve-day tour, but it differs in many ways from the 1953 suggestion. The headline properly emphasizes Glacier Park as the tour suggestion spends four days in Glacier … Continue reading