National Parks The American Experience Cars meet Yellowstone-bound passengers beside the train at Gardiner, Montana, in June 1930. Only fifteen years earlier, trains and stagecoaches had enjoyed a monopoly of national park patronage. Courtesy of the National Park Service The western railroads played up on the romantic side of tourism in advertisements like this one from the December 1910 issue of McClure's. Courtesy of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway the National Park Service interpretative program, inaugurated in the 1920s, led tourists off the road to such places at Mount Stanton, Glacier National Park. Hileman photograph, courtesy of the National Archives <<< PREVIOUS CONTENTS NEXT >>> National Parks: The American Experience ©1997, University of Nebraska Press runte1/photo2-2.htm — 17-Mar-2004