Put yourself back, just for a moment, to around 1900. These were the days before cars and jets. How are you going to visit America's first National Park, the place people are calling "wonderland"? Perhaps someone might send you this little postcard fold-out about touring the Park the "Wylie Way". You would probably arrive at the Park's edge via railroad and then board one of the Wylie horse-drawn coaches to see Yellowstone up close. For most, this would be the trip of a lifetime.
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| Wylie Way Postcard Fold-out 22 total views (11 front and back) |
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| Front Cover The postcard folder was ready to be mailed. This one was not. |
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| Back Cover Drawing of scene at Top of Mt Washburn Note the attire of visitors! |
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| Fishing Cone Famous because a fisherman standing on the cone could swing one way to catch a fresh fish in Yellowstone Lake and then swing the other way to cook the fish in the boiling water in the cone. (Still there today but you can't fish from it!) |
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| Bears Feeding on Wylie Camp Garbage There is no feeding of bears in YNP today. It must have been fun to watch. |
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| Petrified Trees Still there today, of course, but not highlighted so much because people vandalized the area trying to take home souvenirs |
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| View after just entering the Park at West Entrance Back in these days it was called Christmas Tree Park (Probably multiple reasons they quit calling it that) |
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| A Wylie Coach by W S Berry (Berry Postcard #61) |
Thanks for stopping by John's Island.
Wow! When you think how far we have come in just one century, it boggles the mind. Thanks for sharing these, John. Gave me a lot to think about. :-)
ReplyDeleteI always like to see these peeks into history. Interesting about the fishing cone!
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