Gail’s guide: the Billings region, America’s ideal vacation land. Welcome stranger! . . .
by [MONTANA -- AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL]. GAIL, [W.W.]
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About This Item
Billings, MT: Billings Advertising Co., 1941. 8vo. [4], 24, [4] pp. With photo illustrations (centerfold double-page photo spread), text illustrations, maps, 4 pp. sections at front & rear which open into 7 x 8.75 in. sized leaves w/ maps & photos. Gold-tinted illustrated softcovers, lozenge photo cowgirl on front cover, yapp edges (some soiling, edgewear, couple minor closed tears at the fold creases for the folding leaves), still VG- copy. First edition, thus, of this remarkably scarce installment in the Gail’s Golden Guide automobile reference books for tourists, intended to welcome visitors to the “land of Purple Hills and Golden Sunsets - of historic landmarks -- scenic wonders . . . the ‘Crow Country’ of yesterday. . . .” Filled with maps, photos of rodeos, advertising for gasoline stops, descriptions of Buffalo Bill Cody, the Billings Boot Hill monument, and more. The business directory and the “latest revised auto map,” were of invaluable assistance to the traveler on the eve of World War II. Worldcat locates only 1 copy (Yale), all other references to runs of the popular Gail’s guides only refer to issues largely from 1924-1939.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57081
- Title
- Gail’s guide: the Billings region, America’s ideal vacation land. Welcome stranger! . . .
- Author
- [MONTANA -- AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL]. GAIL, [W.W.]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Billings Advertising Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Billings, MT:
- Date Published
- 1941.
- Keywords
- Montana, Billings Montana, Gail’s Golden Guide, Automobile Travel, Transportation, Tourism, Crow Indians, Cheyenne, Custer, Absaroka, Shoshone National Forest, Maps, Mapping, Cartography, Western Americana, Billings Advertising Company, Local History
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