MZFCollection2572.xml Guide to the Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register1904-1909 Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register Kim Allen Scott, 2013 Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 2572, MtBC, us Wylie Permanent Camping Company Wylie Permanent Camping Company Yellowstone Lake Tourist Register 1904-1909 1 volume 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. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

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.

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.

This collection is open for research.

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.

This collection was processed 2013 October 8

 Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone Lake (Wyo.) United States -- Yellowstone National Park Wyoming Wyoming -- Yellowstone Lake Outdoor recreation -- Wyoming National park concessions -- Yellowstone National Park Camps -- Yellowstone National Park Tourism -- Yellowstone National Park Camps National park concessions Outdoor recreation Tourism National Parks Sports and Recreation