Gates' Tenth Annual Mexico Tour

Cleveland: Winn & Judson, 1903. About very good.. 64pp. Original color printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps, spine chipping at foot. Light toning internally. An extensively detailed and well illustrated promotional for the Winter 1903 Gates Tour of Mexico with optional itineraries for the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and California. A 1904 article in the National Magazine lauded Gates as a "world-renowned manager of Mexican tours," stating that no one should contemplate touring Mexico with anyone else. Traveling to Mexico by rail in proprietary rail cars, Gates provided full service tourism to all the most interesting and prominent locales in Mexico -- tourism, the American way. Participants traveled south from Chicago, through Texas and central Mexico to Mexico City, and returned to the United States by way of the Sonoran Desert and El Paso. Heavily illustrated with photographs and a map of the route, and with painstaking descriptions of travel amenities and the many sights and towns on the journey.