Holm Lodge, Cross Sabers Ranch, Cody, Wyoming [Cover Title]

HOLM LODGE

Publication: Privately printed for Holm Lodge, ca 1947, N P

Pictorial stapled wrappers, 8vo, n. p. (12 pp.), map showing location of Holm Lodge, illustrated from photographs including a centerfold of Holm Lodge Lounge and Dining Room, tourist information such as fishing, hiking, horseback riding, proximity to Cody, Yellowstone Park, Fishhawk Glacier, etc.

"The story of Crossed Sabers Ranch begins back in 1898 when it was incorporated by Aaron “Tex” Holm as Lodge 3 of the Holm Transportation Company. Holm’s transportation business was to move people by steam-powered car from Cody, WY to the lodge, and then by carriage from the lodge to the newly formed Yellowstone National Park where his other two lodges stood.

The original Holm Lodge was a collection of wall tents in which guests would sleep. But, as interest in the dude ranching business increased in the early 20th century, more prominent guests began to make their way westward and more sophisticated accommodations quickly followed. Six framed sleeping cottages went up in 1912 in addition to twelve, four-man tents and twelve, single-man tents bringing the total guest capacity to 200 tourists.

Disaster struck soon after when the main building of the lodge burned down in 1914 and Tex went out of business from the new regulations allowing tourists to take private vehicles through the park. He was bought out by one of his former share-holders, J. W. “Billy” Howell. Howell’s horses carried his personal brand of the crossed sabers for the ranch. The name changed to Holm Lodge Crossed Sabers Ranch, and, not long after, simply Crossed Sabers Ranch. It became one of the original dude ranches that operated in the state of Wyoming. So began the Crossed Sabers Legacy. " (Wikipedia)

A few small nicks and closed tears to the fore-edges, faint evidence of a vertical crease, interior clean and tight, else a very good copy