1906 WONDERLAND Northern Pacific Railroad Annual Travel Guide Photos Yellowstone

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Orig 1906 Wonderland * Northern Pacific Railroad Annual Travel Guide Photos Yellowstone
Queniut Indians Alaska Bitterroot Mtns Columbia River RARE
(Many more photos of contents further below)
Very Rare original publication from 1906 . . . Wonderland
Descriptive of the Northwest by Northern Pacific Railroad
Yellowstone Park Line
By Olin D. Wheeler
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Illustrated
Softcover 7” x 9 ½” with 176 pgs
Descriptions, photos and Travel information . . . Packed with great real photos – almost every page!
I show you many pics of the contents further below . . . it is hard to stop taking photos for you – each one is so important and interesting
illustrated from photographs by F. Jay Haynes, official photographer for the Railroad.
There is a great 2 page layout Map in the back of the Northern Pacific Railroad Routes and Connections – I show it to you above
This edition of the Northern Pacific Railroad's annual travel guide covers:
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Yellowstone National Park
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A Trip Through The Bitterroot Mountains
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Columbia River and Puget Sound Region
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The Queniut Indians of the northwest coast
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Some Information About Alaska
From the web:
The Northern Pacific Railroad (NPRR) was competing with the other railroads for tourism and they needed a hook to bring in more customers. In 1883, they began service to Yellowstone. The next year, NPRR started an annual publication devoted to enticing people to the park. It began with two issues entitled "Alice's Adventures in the New Wonderland."
Northern Pacific was the first western railroad to promote vacation travel to the national parks. As early as 1885, the company published an
annual guidebook called Wonderland
, filled with articles on train travel and western scenery. It was in those guidebooks that NP's slogan "Yellowstone Park Line" originated.
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Northern Pacific takes the lead
Northern Pacific's branch to Yellowstone Park ended at Gardiner, Mont., within yards of the park's original entrance.
The history of the western railroads and national parks can be traced to 1870, when Henry Washburn, Surveyor General of the Montana Territory, led an expedition to an area near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River. Surrounded by high, yellow rock cliffs, the area was known as the Yellowstone region, named by the Native Americans who lived there.
One member of Washburn's expedition, Nathaniel Langford, went east to lecture on the group's findings. While in Philadelphia, Langford met Jay Cooke, promoter and financier of the
Northern Pacific Railroad
extension project. Both men realized that the completion of the Northern Pacific would make Yellowstone readily accessible to tourists. Driven by the revenue potential of carrying vacationers to Wyoming's unspoiled wilderness, the Northern Pacific was largely responsible for introducing legislation in Congress called the Yellowstone Park Act, signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, which created America's first national park.
In the
back section
there is information on:
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Northern Pacific Railway – 2 page map of Routes and Connections across the country
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General and District Passenger Agents – by City
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Partial List of Publications of the Northern Pacific Railway
“Wonderland 1906:
An annual publication – gotten up in most attractive style.
Its pages are beautifully illustrated in half-tone. The Northern Pacific has become noted for this publication.
. . Send Six Cents”
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Condition:
Very Good condition – Complete and tightly bound – inside pages clean & crisp with no marks or writing . . . outside covers are also good
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there is a 1” spine cover split at the bottom on the front side and a little roughness at the top of the spine cover
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at some time of its life, this was exposed to sun and the spine cover and a portion of the back cover edge is sun faded, this maroon color fades easily . . .
All in all an excellent copy of an exceedingly rare publication
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