Item #710 Gail's Golden Guide. A Complete Reference Book for Tourists, Covering the Beartooth, Absaroka & Shoshone National Forest Vacation Region. The Historic Crow Indian Country Where the West Was Won. Billings the Gateway of the American Wonderland...[cover title]. Montana, W. W. Gail.
Gail's Golden Guide. A Complete Reference Book for Tourists, Covering the Beartooth, Absaroka & Shoshone National Forest Vacation Region. The Historic Crow Indian Country Where the West Was Won. Billings the Gateway of the American Wonderland...[cover title]

Gail's Golden Guide. A Complete Reference Book for Tourists, Covering the Beartooth, Absaroka & Shoshone National Forest Vacation Region. The Historic Crow Indian Country Where the West Was Won. Billings the Gateway of the American Wonderland...[cover title]

Billings: Billings Advertising Co, 1927. 40pp. plus folding map, 8.5 x 14.25 inches. Narrow quarto. Original orange-gold printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. A bit worn, some light soiling. About very good. Item #710

A scarce promotional brochure which includes detailed descriptions of dude ranches, points of interest, and considerable information on Yellowstone National Park. Additionally, the brochure includes early halftone photographs, advertising for local businesses, a street map of Billings, and an early road map of the area delineating all the main highways. Given the date, the roads all bear names rather than numbers, which had not yet been instituted -- "Yellowstone Trail," "Billings Cody Way," "Glacier to Gulf Motorway." The street map of Billings refers back to a business directory, with the map noting, "If some individual in Billings or anywhere else overcharges you or doesn't give you friendly and courteous treatment, do not hold it against the whole town -- he probably doesn't know any better. All the rest of us are glad you're here and hope you'll come back." We locate at least one copy in OCLC, at Yale.

Price: $275.00