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Title: Summer tours : season 1924
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Company Chicago and North Western Railway Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Dept. of Tours, Chicago Union Pacific & Northwestern Line
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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PALATIAL YELLOWSTONE HOTELS OR DELIGHTFULPERMANENT CAMPS You have heard of that poem in rusticity, Old Faithful Inn! Our tourists spend anight and eat four meals there. Less famous, but more spacious and luxurious, is thenew Canyon Hotel, an inspired adaptation of European hotel ideas to Yellowstone environ-ment. The lounge of this hotel is large enough for a.thousand couples to dance at onetime. We use all the first-class Yellowstone Park hotels on these trips. We also give escorted service with the Yellowstone Camps Company for passengerswho prefer the popular camping trip. The permanent camps are located near the hotels.They are clean, comfortable, and sanitary; and the service emphasizes all the wholesomepleasures of camping out. FIRST DAY IN YELLOWSTONE (Third day en route) The morning ride is from West Yellowstone Station to Old Faithful, a distance ofthirty miles. You make a wise choice in entering the Park at this Western Entrance because Four T^vo National Parks in Two Weeks
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Union Pacific System- -Double-track, protected by automatic electric safety signalsOn the official route of our tours the government road from this point, winding through the Park, brings us to the principalattractions in their proper sequence. Old Faithful Inn is in the heart of the Upper GeyserBasin where all the great geysers are located. You can sit on the broad gallery of theInn and watch Old Faithful play only 200 yards away! During the afternoon our partyis taken over the Basin. By nightfall you will agree that this is the most weird spot inthe Universe. SECOND DAY IN YELLOWSTONE (Fourth day en route) The morning is spent at Old Faithful. Short walks from the hotel discover multi-colored pools and more geysers. After lunch a 35-mile motor trip takes the party to LakeHotel, a restful structure overlooking Yellowstone Lake. The late afternoon affords timefor fishing, boating, mountain climbing or just resting. After dinner, see the bears,big and little, cinnamon and silver tip, c

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