Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register

Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register, 1904-1909

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Wylie Permanent Camping Company
Title: Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register
Dates: 1904-1909
19041909
Quantity: 1 volume
Collection Number: Collection 2572, MtBC, us (collection)
Summary: The Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register dates from June 18, 1904 through September 10, 1909. The ledger contains the signatures of guests who stayed at the facility. The first thirty-six pages of the ledger were used as a scrapbook by a previous owner; what remains of the newspaper and magazine clipping fragments does not entirely obscure the handwritten entries.
Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

The Wylie Permanent Camping Company formed in 1905 with the purchase of the Wylie Camping Company concession of William Wallace Wylie by A.W. Miles and A.L. Smith. Wylie had been operating camps in Yellowstone National Park since the early 1880s. By 1915 Wylie Way operated numerous camps in the Park including one at Yellowstone Lake. After the 1916 season, the newly-formed Park Service decided that all of the camping companies would be merged into one company. The new company became under the ownership of the Shaw brothers and A.W. Miles and was known as the Yellowstone Park Camping Company. It was renamed in 1919 as the Yellowstone Park Camps Company.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Yellowstone Lake tourist register contains the signatures of guests who stayed at the facility from June 18, 1904 through September 10, 1909. The information also includes the home town and state of the visitor. The first thirty-six pages of the ledger were used as a scrapbook by a previous owner and the removal of the pasted material has been uneven. However, most of the newspaper and magazine clippings fragments that remain do not entirely obscure the handwritten entries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

Bound ledger listing tourist registrations at the Wylie Permanent Camping Co. facility at Yellowstone Lake was purchased by Montana State University from Cowan Auctions Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio on September 25, 2013.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2013 October 8

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Camps
Camps -- Yellowstone National Park
National park concessions
National park concessions -- Yellowstone National Park
Outdoor recreation
Outdoor recreation -- Wyoming
Tourism
Tourism -- Yellowstone National Park

Geographical Names

United States -- Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Wyoming -- Yellowstone Lake
Yellowstone Lake (Wyo.)
Yellowstone National Park

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