HIST 4427 Idaho State University Railway to the Clouds by Mt Lowe Discussion

Read Carl Abbott’s chapter “Money in the Air” about tourism in the early-20th century West. Then choose one of the following archival collections to find an advertisement for western travel or tourism during the period before 1930.

Describe the advertisement (what it was promoting, who, where, etc.) and explain how it relates to any of the points made in Abbott’s chapter.

• Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918. University of Washington Libraries. (There are several pages of options here. Click on an image to see details.)
  
• California Tourism and Promotional Literature Collection. California State University Northridge Library. (Choose any of the thumbnails to see a bigger image. Details on each are not available online.)
• All required books are available in the ISU Bookstore or at any online retailer. Additional articles and documents not listed here are in .pdf format and can be downloaded from the course Moodle site.Elliott West, The Essential West: Collected Essays (2012). Few people write as well and as much on the West as Elliott West. This book represents his research and interpretations on various important events and themes in western history. We will read essays selectively from this throughout the semester.
  Andrew R. Graybill, The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (2014) This book documents several generations of a Montana family from the late 1800s to the middle 1900s.