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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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tops for the remainder of the afternoon and evening. This city is famed farand wide for Ogden Canyon, a cleft in the Wasatch Mountains, 2,000 feet deep, throughwhich tumbles a torrential mountain stream. Our party rides up this canyon to TheHermitage (see illustration) for a trout and chicken dinner. There is no haste. Wehave time not only for dinner but to lounge on the big rustic veranda, drinking deep ofthe mountain air and watching the evening shadows darken the canyon walls overhead.Our train leaves Ogden for West Yellowstone at 9.05 p.m. IN GEYSERLAND (Third day en route) We arrive at the West Yellowstone Gateway before breakfast. The cool crisp airexhilarates. Something tells you that you are on the threshold of a tremendous scenicadventure. After breakfast, in the Union Pacific System dining room, our party takesautomobiles which have been reserved in advance, and we set forth on a five days autotour that will realize all our dreams. Three Nortli Western-U nion Pacific Tou r s
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Chicago Terminal of the Chicago & North Western Ry.All our tours leave from this magnificent station This informal story will not attempt to portray the glories of the Yellowstone. It isassumed that you have heard about it and read about it and seen pictures of it all yourlife. If this be true, you are concerned now about practical matters which have to do withhoTi) you see it. The large comfortable automobile has superseded the stage coach. To be sure thistakes away something of the frontier picturesqueness, but the automobile makes the tripmore comfortable, safer, opens up new places of interest, and allows double time at OldFaithful and the Grand Canyon. 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 ofsummertoursseaso00unio

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