Evening star., 1936-03-15
THE fastener doesn't have

look far for dude ranch. He
can find them in New York,
Il even Pennsylvania; turning
South, he can spot one in the wild
and rugged heart of Great Smokes
National Park.
Naturally, he'll find saddle horses,
whatever ranch he chooses. Selec-
ton SINNERS down to whether he
wants horses with table tennis, horses
with elaborate swimming pools, horses
with COWS. with fish, with gramo-
phones, with glad-hand hostesses,
horses without radios: in other words,
horses with modern frills or with the
novelty of primitive but congenial
plainness. But the stickler for at
mosphere demands another essen
tial-horses in their original dude
ranch setting of the West.
BY the way, one of the delights Of
living in the East is the chance Of
travelling in the West.
Believe 1t or not, dude ranches in
the picturesque country of wyoming,
Montana and Colorado are less than
a full day from Washington, and
that includes the time it takes to get
into leather pants, gallons Of hats
and swinging up into the bounding
saddle of a bronc Gf you insist.
Three mile -a-minute airliners make
this sudden change of scene possible.
WHILE the traveller who has not
yet learned to be an aviation
fan is vaguely aware that planes have
shrunk the United States map tre-
mendously in the last decade, he
probably has not thought Of air
travel in terms of extra dividends OF
extra days in genuine dude-ranch life.
Among the aviation companies
bringing the West to the East, Penn
sylvania and United Air Lines have
Joined hands to become specialists in
serving dude ranches to Fasteners on
short order. and their schedules are
so synchronized with North-and-South
Western planes that the dude-ranch
fan can climb aboard plane leaving
Washington Hoover Airport at $50
pm. one day and be digging out his
duff1e on a ranch-Say in the Green
River region of wyoming for lunch
con the next day.
Back in the mountains and rolling
hills, some distance from the nearest
airportS. lies the nest of bungalows
and corrals that make up the typical
dude ranch. Getting there from the
airport-the distances usually range
from 25 to more than 100 miles-has
been solved without extra pains of the
traveller. Airline companies, as a
part of routine, send word ahead to
the ranch owner that another tender
foot will arrive, and an automobile
meets him. All the airline company
has to know is that the travellers
destination is Such-and-such o dude
ranch.
IN THE grand camping grounds of
the jackson Hole country of the
TetonS ranch variety aboundS. Ac-
commodationS range from 10 to 300
guests, the average being about 80.
Naturally, $12 day offers more di-
version and facilities than 81, but
everywhere the tang Of the West is
sharp. Streams filled with trout
plunge through the country, and big
game turks in the area there for the
nimrod in season.
Plane connections via Pennsylvania
lines Qater transferring to United)
are made by leaving Washington at
ABS pm. and arriving at Idaho Falls
before 8 the next morning. After
June is planes flying north from
Uniteds main transcontinental line at
Salt Lake City will reach West yell
lowstone Airport (west entrance of
the National Park) shortly after 8
for the land trip into the ranch coun-
try.
Other ranch regions served by plane
from Washington include the Snowy
Range region of the Continental Di-
vide, with its local rodeos and polo
and special hostesses for children;
Colorado, where the mountain hiker
likes to quit his horse and where
ranches specialize in appealing to
young boys; the Shoshone country of
Wyoming, with its big game and at
tractive pack trips; Montana, with
swimming predominating as an alter
nate diversion, and Idaho. with min
eral water swimming pools and rates
as low as s25 per week.
SCRIBBLINGs: Typical rates for
excess baggage across the Atlantic
include-Bicycles, IS; motor cycles,
$25; dogs, $25; cats, IS; one or two
birds in a cage, 81.
Unwearied by, or recovered from its
Easter pageantry. Seville will on April
10 open q grand fair. with dances.
bull fights and horsemen On ths
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